Thanks for your post.
Let's see if more people ask for this.

I have a old FTP server (220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0009C04] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990) that is returning a bad response to the PWD issued on startup. There is little change of change the host software. Is there anyway to get WinSCP to ignore the error?

. 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 Getting current directory name.
> 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 PWD
< 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 257-"/TEST/SCAN" is the current directory.
< 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 257 "MGR.TEST,SCAN" is the current session.
* 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 (ECommand) Error getting name of current remote directory.
* 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 Invalid response to PWD command '"/TEST/SCAN" is the current directory.
* 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 "MGR.TEST,SCAN" is the current session.
* 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 '.
. 2018-11-22 11:48:57.850 Attempt to close connection due to fatal exception:


Here is what I get when doing a Windows ftp PWD.
ftp> pwd
257-"/TEST/SCAN" is the current directory.
257 "MGR.TEST,SCAN" is the current session.
ftp>

Thanks in advance,
Ken