Re: Programming alternatives to the AS/400 FTP command.

2 months for someone who knows TCP/IP and sockets?  I can't think of any reason 
it
could possibly take this long.  Especially when I wrote my own FTP client on a 
PC
using Delphi in about 2 days (half the time was researching it).

If I needed to do this I would guesstimate 3 weeks.  One week to track down and
learn how to do sockets in RPG.  One week to modify this program and get it to
actually work and log into an FTP server.   Then the third week to look up the
FTP RFC and work out all the bugs.

If I could find everything easily, maybe 2 weeks.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:22:22 -0700
From: Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@cross-check.com>
Subject: Re: Programming alternatives to the AS/400 FTP command.

Well to write your own FTP client is not all that difficult.  You must first 
understand all the requirements for FTP and
the error messages.  If all you want to do is connect, logon, list directory, 
get, put and close, you can write the FTP
client to do this.  It can take you upwards of 3 months.  If you are all ready 
a TCP/IP sockets guru,  maybe on 2 months.
There are third party packages out their that do this for you.  Two I can think 
of are ZMOD/400 and Alliance FTP manager.
Each approach the problem with IBM's FTP client from different angles.

Good Luck,
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