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+## Copyright (C) 2009 David Bateman
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{lst} =} dir (@var{path})
+## List the current directory in verbose form for the FTP connection 
+## @var{f}. @var{f} is an FTP object returned by the ftp function.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function lst = dir (obj)
+  if (nargout == 0)
+    __ftp_dir__ (obj.curlhandle);
+  else
+    lst = __ftp_dir__ (obj.curlhandle);
+  endif
+endfunction