[Jython-users] problems with voidcmd and or sendcmd

[Hubert Y. <yos...@da...>]

Hi all,
maybe I'm not using the ftplib properly or not but having a problem.

Trying to connect from a pc (win 2000) to a Guardian OS machine (Compaq
Non-stop). In anycase, when you do an ftp if you have something called an
OSS api on (emulate UNIX env. on a Guardian OS) but you want to access the
Guardian file system you simply type 'quote guardian' to get the Guardian
api. That's probably too much info anyhow (who actually knows Guardian
anyhow? ;) I'm assuming that diong a 'quote' is a standard way of sending
raw commands. 
In any case I'm doing the following command

ftpConnection.voidcmd("quote guardian")

also tried

ftpConnection.sendcmd("quote guardian")

and they all got similar error message which was...

<snip>
File "/home/yoshizak/jython-2.0/Lib/ftplib.py", line 0, in voidcmd 
File "/home/yoshizak/jython-2.0/Lib/ftplib.py", line 0, in voidresp 
File "/home/yoshizak/jython-2.0/Lib/ftplib.py", line 0, in getresp 
error_perm: 500 'QUOTE guardian': command not understood.

any ideas?
thanks in advance,
Hubert