patch submitted by Ove Soerensen in PR 26810
3.1.8.1, 2004-07-27
+ A fix for some DNS resolution problems on Linux.
3.1.8, 2004-07-07
+ Ncftpget, ncftpput, and ncftpls now try to erase the arguments to the
-u/-p/-j (user, password, account) options so they do not show in
a "ps" command (Thanks, Konstantin Gavrilenko).
+ Recognize broken IBM mainframe FTP servers and work around them.
+ Working around a problem with ProFTPD 1.2.9 and later which would
cause recursive downloads to fail.
+ Fixed a bug where ncftpput in recursive mode could lock up if you
used a trailing slash on the directory to upload.
+ For the malicious server problem that was addressed in 3.1.5, enhanced
the fix for better compatibility with mainframe FTP servers.
+ Ncftpget, ncftpput, and ncftpls, and ncftp's open command now accept
an additional advanced option (-o) which lets you do things like disable
NcFTP's use of SITE UTIME, FEAT, HELP SITE, etc.
+ Several HP-UX 10 compatibility bugs fixed (Thanks, Laurent FAILLIE).
+ A couple of looping problems with ncftpbatch fixed (Thanks, George Goffe).
+ Bug fixed with the upload socket buffer not being set (Thanks, ybobble).
+ The utility programs now accept "-" for the config file name used
with "-f" to denote standard input (Thanks, Jeremy Monin).
+ Bug fixed with ncftpput when using both -c and -A (Thanks, Ken Woodmansee).
+ Support for boldface text in Windows version (Thanks, Adam Gates).
3.1.7, 2004-01-07
+ Fixed a memory leak introduced in 3.1.6.
+ Fixed problem where it was assumed that daylight saving's time occurred
at the same time each year for all timezones.
+ Bug fixed with running a shell escape.
+ Ncftpget now uses passive-with-fall-back-to-port mode like ncftpput and
ncftpls.
+ Problem fixed with "ls -a" where occasionally a row with ".." and another
file would be omitted.
+ Ncftpbatch now uses the UTC timezone for spool files.
+ The configure script can now detect when the config.cache file has been
improperly recycled from a machine with a different OS.
+ The Windows version now uses the USERPROFILE environment variable, if it
was set, as the location of the user's home directory.
+ Recognize broken DG/UX servers and work around them.
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