Re: Make downloading/uploading file members easier with FTP

Right on.

But I found a funny wrinkle, at least in v5r1, which prompted this in the
first place. You can set FTP to use either *CURLIB or *HOMEDIR special
values for initial directory. *HOMEDIR forces the NAMEFMT 1. But if didn't
know this and tried to CD yourlib/yourfile, in NAMEFMT 0 style, it fails.

At 07:44 AM 4/26/02 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thursday 25 April 2002 9:02 pm, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> > Just found a way to simplify (IMO) downloading file members. It depends
> > on using NAMEFMT 1, which is IFS path naming. When you use this,
> > physical files are handled like folders or directories. Once you change
> > directory to the "file", you just use the member name in the get or put
> > statement.
> >
> >  From your client (MS-DOS prompt, whatever)
> >
> > quote site namefmt 1
> > cd /qsys.lib/yourlib.lib/yourfile.file
> > get yourmbr.mbr yourmbr.ext
> >
> > If yourfile.file is a source file, you don't need to specify ascii for
> > transfer type - it automatically converts to ascii.
> >
> >
> > Vern Hamberg
>
>Hi Vernon
>
>It's even easier than that. You don't usually need to bother with the
>namefmt as OS/400 detects & sets the convention needed according to the
>directory name used. From a session started with the default namefmt 0:
>
>ftp> cd /qsys.lib/mrowelib.lib/qrpglesrc.file
>250-NAMEFMT set to 1.
>250 "/QSYS.LIB/MROWELIB.LIB/QRPGLESRC.FILE" is current directory.
>
>It certainly works from OS/400 or Linux ftp sessions, so I'm assuming
>it'll work in DOS too.
>
>Regards, Martin
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