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Re: Calling PC program Via FTP, Urgent!!!!

From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
> >Could someone tell me how to call a PC command
> >from AS400 FTP session??.
> You can do similar things with a PC ftp server only if the ftp server
> understands RCMD.  Most probably, you need to be running an rexec daemon to
> get the ftp server to execute commands on the PC, but that depends on the
PC
> OS and ftp server.  Use quote help or quote server to see what commands the
> PC server supports.

a simple daemon could be a program that runs on the PC checking every few
seconds if a certain file has arrived (via FTP). When the file arrives,
copy it to a .bat file, delete it, and then execute the .bat file and finally
go back
to checking again.

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