RE: FTP to iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

Are you sure? When I've used GET without (R it does nothing except tell me the file is already there. Here's part of the iSeries FTP client help for the GET:

(REPLACE    This variable is optional.  Writes over the localfile
            if it already exists.  The localfile will not be
            overwritten unless you specify (REPLACE.  The GET
            subcommand displays a message saying that a file member
            or folder document with that name already exists.

There is an APPEND subcommand, but it is for sending out to the server - PUT replaces, APPEND adds.

Vern

At 04:36 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote:

On Gets, the default behavior is to append data, with (REPL being the option
that changes this behavior.

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863

-----Original Message-----
From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 3:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: FTP to iSeries


Another related question came up a few minutes ago:

I have a script that is reaching out to a pSeries machine and retrieving
information. I use the GET command, along with the (REPLACE parameter.
This script repeats itself every 10 minutes.

The software vendor, not being sure that the previously retrieved data has
been completely processed, has recommended that the script be changed to
append the incoming data to the file rather than replacing the entire
file.

Anybody got any suggestions? How does one do an append?


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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