RE: 500 Command not understood?

David,

The following are results from my V5R1 system.......

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* FTP Client from Windows
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Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
(C) Copyright 1985-1998 Microsoft Corp.

E:\WINNT\Profiles\rooney.000>ftp qrcoi400
Connected to QRCOI400.
220-QTCP at 192.168.2.1.
220 Connection will close if idle more than 5 minutes.
User (QRCOI400:(none)): rooney
331 Enter password.
Password:
230 ROONEY logged on.
ftp> quote rcmd CRTLIB TEMPLIB
250 Command CRTLIB TEMPLIB successful.
ftp> QUOTE RCMD CRTLIB TEMPLIB1
?Invalid command
ftp> QUOTE RCMD CRTLIB TEMPLIB
?Invalid command
ftp> quote rcmd CRTLIB TEMPLIB1
250 Command CRTLIB TEMPLIB1 successful.
ftp> site QUOTE RCMD CRTLIB TEMPLIB2
?Invalid command
ftp> quote rcmd crtlib templib2
250 Command crtlib templib2 successful.

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* FTP Client from AS/400
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  Connecting to host localhost at address 127.0.0.1 using port 21.        
  220-QTCP at localhost.                                                  
  220 Connection will close if idle more than 5 minutes.                  
> rooney                                                                  
  331 Enter password.                                                     
  230 ROONEY logged on.                                                   
   OS/400 is the remote operating system. The TCP/IP version is "V5R1M0". 
  250  Now using naming format "0".                                       
  257 "QGPL" is current library.                                          
> quote rcmd CRYTLIB TEMPLIB3                                             
  550-Error occurred on command CRYTLIB TEMPLIB3.                         
  550 Error found on CRYTLIB command..                                    
> quote rcmd CRTLIB TEMPLIB3
   250 Command CRTLIB TEMPLIB3 successful.  
 > QUOTE RCMD CRTLIB TEMPLIB4               
   250 Command CRTLIB TEMPLIB4 successful.                                      
          

As you can see, I tried several of the suggestions, some working, some not.
None, however, generated the "500 Command not understood" response.  Did you
ever confirm you connected with the AS/400?  If so, does it use an FTP exit?

HTH,

Michael Rooney
Citigroup International