Re: ftp

[Peter Coffin <phcoffin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth writes:

> FTP is easy?  darn.  So I decided to try.  All that my FTP program shows
> me is root ("/") on the AS/400.  How would I find a library named QGPL or
> a file in my library, like "BOOTH/QRPGSRC" or a member like
> "BOOTH/QDDSSRC/ARFILE"

ftp on the 400 has two naming conventions, labelled NAMEFMT 0 and NAMEFMT 1.
NAMEFMT 0 defaults to a "root" of a directory of libraries. The naming
format is LIBNAME/FILENAME.MBRNAME . NAMEFMT 1 defaults to the root of
the IFS "/". The naming convention into the library filesystem is
/qsys.lib/LIBNAME.lib/FILENAME.file/MBRNAME.mbr where the uppercase parts
are substitutions just like in NAMEFMT 0.

The system defaults to NAMEFMT 0 but attempting to use NAMEFMT 1's naming
scheme will usually kick it over to NAMEFMT 1 automatically.

I recommand using NAMEFMT 1 (it can reach the whole system, and is more
conventional in the ftp world), and that you specify all the name parts
with each transfer rather than trying to mess around with the cd command;
it doesn't work quite the same way on the 400 as it does on other systems.

Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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