Re: FTP from AS/400, appending to a pc file.

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald,

Can you use the Append function in FTP?

  append mylib/myfile c:\mydir\existing-file

Patrick

Gerald Magnuson wrote:
> 
> I am in need of a way to append (add more current data) to a pc file on our 
>server.  I can ftp from the AS/400 and replace the file, or I can have the ftp 
>on the 400 give the pc file a new file name, but I am in need of
> adding new records to a current PC file that may still have data from the 
>previous FTP transfer.  A PC on the network is reading records out of this 
>file and processing them, deleting them when finished.
> 
> I am hoping there is a way to append to the PC file through the AS400, 
>otherwise I will need a program on another PC that will do the appending.
> 
> Thank You
> 
> Gerald Magnuson
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> Knapheide Manufacturing Company
> 
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