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Old 11-04-2003, 05:38 AM  
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This is unfortunately impossible, as in current form ioFTPD caches whole directory list before sending it to client. => Recursive listing would result to _huge_ buffer.

Neater way to do indexing (in the future), is to create site command/scheduler event that traverses through directories and writes a log. In the future (within coming next few releases) creation of such command will be made much easier.


Imho -r parameter is nothing but lazyness of client programmers.. traversing through directories using stat command, is much more convenient way. (client is able to filter unneccessary directories)
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