Lists the names of remote files and other information about them.
    The remote files can be on any FTP server. To use this command,
    you must have an FTP session with a remote host.

    The DCL DIRECTORY command supports the redirecting of output to a
    file.

    DCL Format

      DIRECTORY [ /BRIEF | /OUT=output_file ]  [ remote_directory ]

    UNIX Format

      ls  [ /remote/path ]

      mls  [ /remote/path]

1  –  Parameters

 remote_directory

    Optional. Default: default directory.

    Directory with the file names you want to list. Wildcards and
    multiple directories are valid.

2  –  Qualifiers

2.1    /BRIEF

    Optional. Default: full display.

    Produces output similar to the UNIX ls command.

2.2    /OUT

       /OUT=output_file

    Optional. If you do not specify the /OUT qualifier, FTP displays
    output to SYS$OUTPUT. If you do specify the /OUT qualifier, you
    must supply a valid output_file specification.

    Name of the file to hold the output.

3  –  Examples

    1.FTP> DIRECTORY
      200 PORT command successful
      150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (130.180.9.8,1150)
      total 76
      -rwxr-x--x  1  geary    users  261 Nov  6  2002 .cshrc
      -rw-r--r--  1  root     users 128  May 21  11:16 .mailrc
      -rwxr-x--x  1  geary    users  182 Nov  6  2002 .profile
      drwxr-x--x  2  geary    users  512 Nov  6  2002 bin
         .
         .
         .
      226 Transfer complete.
      911 bytes received in 00:00:00.07 seconds

      Displays a full listing of file names in the current default
      UNIX directory.

    2.FTP> ls disk3$:[banks.branch.bills]
      200 PORT command successful
      150 Opening data connection for DISK3$:[BANKS.BRANCH.BILLS]  (11.1.2.3.4)
      LOCAL_ACCTS.DIS;1
      GO_FIGURE.EXE;14
      COMPARE.EXE;4
      SUMTOTAL.COM;1

      226 NLST Directory transfer complete.
      428 bytes received in 00:00:00.41 seconds (10.06 Kbyte/s)
      FTP>

      Displays a listing of file names in the directory of the
      connected host, which is another OpenVMS system.