On Wednesday 04 June 2008 15:14:56 Marc Heiler wrote:

> "drwxrwxrwx   2 web      netscape     8192 Oct 29  2007 images"
> 
> The first pos indicates a dir.

By convention, I think. That's a Unix-style mask, as you would get 
with 'ls -l'. Have you tried it on a Windows host?

I'm not sure there's anything built into the FTP protocol to show that it's a 
directory.