Why is my FTP output file blank?

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Published on 2009-06-17T20:33:48Z Indexed on 2012/12/16 5:07 UTC
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From the Windows command prompt, I have FTPd to a Windows web server. I can get a file, and I can see a directory listing with dir, but I want to save that list locally.

I tried dir > c:\somefile.txt, and the file is created, but it's blank. Same thing if I do ls > c:\somefile.txt.

The result is the same when I FTP from a Linux box.

FTP sends back the following:

200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls
226 Transfer complete

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