Re: FTP

Booth:
I believe the sub command NAMEFMT will change the format from directory
type to lib/file/member.  I am not in the office just now.  FTP handles
members just fine.
CArl

At 01:47 PM 12/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:18 AM 12/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>FTP is easy?  darn.  So I decided to try.  All that my FTP program shows
>>me is root ("/") on the AS/400.  How would I find a library named QGPL or
>>a file in my library, like "BOOTH/QRPGSRC" or a member like
>>"BOOTH/QDDSSRC/ARFILE"
>
>Beats me.  I don't know FTP.  Keep in mind that multi-membering is a
>concept that is (just about) an AS/400 exclusive.  It's unknown to SQL, and
>many of the new database functions added to OS/400 don't support it.  It
>just so happens that it works very well for source files, but my guess is
>that IBM had it to do over again, they would have done source files
>differently.
>
>One of the severe penalties Rochester pays for in an architecture where
>'everything works forever' is backwards compatability.  It preserves your
>investment in programming.  Tell that to the next person that boasts to you
>about NT.  Remember, Microsoft runs the core of their business on the
>AS/400.  They just don't like to talk about it.  (as does Apple, Nintendo,
>Gateway 2000 and Packard Bell [rumor has it that they have a new model 650])
>
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