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I've run into a problem using at least one commercial FTP client application (Auto FTP Manager) in that I cannot establish a connection to the Netburner's FTP server when the Netburner responds with code 503 to the SYST command. All I've been able to find out so far is that the response is supposed to be a system name followed by a transfer type, e.g. "UNIX TYPE:L8". I have not been able to find any document describing what the valid responses can be. There are apparently some names registered by the IANA, and some servers just make something up. The following link recommends returning code 215 with the response I gave above. Is there any reason why Netburner's system code couldn't provide something by default?

http://cr.yp.to/ftp/syst.html

I will modify the system code to return something and see if it works, but I suggest Netburner reply with "215 UNIX TYPE: L8" as per the suggestion in the link.

I just added the aforementioned support for the SYST command to the FTP server library code, and now Auto FTP Manager is working fine.

This is a very simple change that I would recommend for the next release.