VMS Help TCPIP Services, FTP, Viewing Remote Directories  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Use the DIRECTORY command to list the files and associated
    information in remote directories. For example, the following
    command lists the files in the default directory on a remote
    UNIX host (assuming the user already has connected to the remote
    host):

    FTP> DIRECTORY
    200 PORT command successful
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (130.180.4.8,1312)
    total 6303
    -rw-rw-r--   1 milgrom  users          1 Jan  9  1996 #UNTITLED#
    -rw-------   1 milgrom  users          4 Apr 11  1996 .Xauthority
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 milgrom  users       1499 Feb  3  1995 .cshrc
    drwxr-xr-x  11 milgrom  users       8192 Jan  9  1996 .dt
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 milgrom  users       3970 Dec 13  1995 .dtprofile