Re: FTP

Hello Terry,

Yes, it is possible but you need to have a better FTP client than the sorry 
excuse MS provide 
(at least with Lose95/98).

If your client supports the nmap FTP command you can do this.  The syntax is:
        nmap inpattern outpattern
where inpattern and outpattern are a set of tokens representing period 
separated parts ($1, 
$2, $3 and so on).  The mapping is used when you DONT specify a filename on the 
put, mput, 
get, or mget FTP commands.

Assume I have a collection of files on my PC and I wish to send them to an 
AS/400 as members 
of a specific file.

Using namefmt 0 (the default) I can issue the following FTP commands:
        nmap $1 myfile.$1
        prompt
        mput *
to have each PC file sent as a member of myfile in the Present Working 
Directory (PWD).

Using namefmt 1 (the IFS convention) I ca issue the following commands:
        nmap $1 /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myfile.file/$1.mbr
        prompt
        mput *
to have each PC file sent as a member of myfile in mylib.

You can get quite creative with this function.  You can issue nmap $1.$2 $2.$1 
to swap the 
name parts around.  You can issue $1.$2.$3 $1.$2 to drop part of the name -- 
useful when 
FTPing between systems with incompatible naming conventions (e.g., Unix files 
so file.zip.old 
will become file.zip).  When I FTP files to my PC they come down with names in 
the following 
form:  AS400FILE.MEMBER

When I send them back to the AS/400 I issue 
        nmap $1.$2 $1.$2
to ensure they go into the correct file - otherwise FTP tries to create or find 
a file with 
the same name as the member.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I)
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 99 10:16:07 -0500
> From: "Terry Grider" <tgrider@arkansas.net>
> To: "MIDRANGE L" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: FTP

> 
> Is it possible to ftp multiple files from a pc to a 400 into a single source
> physical file and have the file names on the pc used as the member names?  Say
> using something like mput c:\progs\*.* /source.lib/qrpgsrc.file/*.mbr. I've
> tried this particular statement and it doesn't work as well as a lot of other
> variations.  Anyone figured this out?
> 
> Terry 
> -- 
> Terry Grider
> tgrider@arkansas.net
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