Re: BATCH ftp ?

> What I need it to
> do is stay in the FTP session after the dir in the script file (listed
>below) because we do not know what the file name will be.

Mark,

Are you aware you can output the listing to a file on the 400?

I use this to get a list of file names, perhaps you could then build a
sub-file from this list and let the user choose which file they want to
get.  That may even be better than what you're proposing although more
coding for you :)  Here's a snipet from the program I use to create the FTP
script.

     C                   Eval      SrcDta='ls ourdata*.txt (DISK'
     C                   Except    Rec

You can find out a little about this in the 400's FTP help, but I think the
output always goes to a file called LSOUTPUT in the *CURLIB.  If a *CURLIB
isn't defined it errors out so you'll need to specify one with the CL
command CHGCURLIB.