Bug 6077

In an ftp session to transfer data between Linux servers
the system does not allow me to enter strings longer than
about 200 bytes. Please see a constructed example below.
The system responds with the message
sorry, input line too long
The ftp session is included in a complex program and the
error occurs because sometimes the files to be copied are
very deep in the file system hierarchy which makes longer
strings unavoidable. I could think of workarounds by making
the file names shorter. But this would cause a lot of work.
By the way, other UNIX products (i.e. HP-UX) do not have
this problem.
EXAMPLE:
[root@twdfr112 ~]# ftp twdfr112
Connected to twdfr112.wdf.sap-ag.de.
220 twdfr112.wdf.sap-ag.de FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-VR17
(1) Mon Apr 19 09:21:53 EDT 1999) ready.
Name (twdfr112:root): root
331 Password required for root.
Password:
230 User root logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd /tmp
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 11896
drwxrwxrwt   9 root     root         4096 Oct 19 04:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root     dba          4096 Oct 14 13:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Oct 15 15:48
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> cd
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
sorry, input line too long