Re[2]: Successful FTP?

You may wish to check out the SNDTCPF and RCVTCPF commands in the Aug 95 issue 
of NEWS/400.  It handles checking for the 'transfer complete' msg for you.

Scott Lindstrom
Zenith Electronics.

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Subject: RE: Successful FTP?
Author:  joakim.svensson@capgemini.se at SMTPLINK-Zenith
Date:    4/30/97 4:40 PM


When using FTP, it's supposed there's a user watching the progress and 
succes of the transfer. The only way to get a result is to capture the 
data shown on the screen. It's done by overriding the file OUTPUT to a 
database file, which you'll have to scann afterwards. I'm not sure, but 
I thing the responscode for a successful transfer is 426, beginning 
early in the record (pos 2 or 3). This is of cource release-dependent, 
and the type/release/version of the remote host will also have to be 
considerred.

/Joakim

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Joakim Svensson
IT-Architect
Cap Gemini, Sweden


>-----Original Message-----
>Has anyone developed a way to tell if a FTP transfer from a 400 to an PC 
>server is successful?  I have a program that will run in batch (submitted 
>from the job scheduler) that will automatically FTP a file to an imaging 
>server.  I have not been able to figure out how to tell if the FTP completed 
>successfully.  If it has, then I can clear the file for the next transfer 
>later in the day.  If not, then I need to retry at a later time and/or notify 
>the operator.  Idealy, this will run as a hands-off operation, with the 
>operator involved only when there is an error.
>
>Terry L. Glass
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