Re: FTP script:

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, an FTP client cannot GET or PUT with no server involved.  However, the
server that's involved is the one that you're connecting to when you
do the GET.   In other words, the FTP server is running at
"www.somewhere.com", that you don't have control over.

In your scenario, you're using your AS/400's FTP _client_ with a script to
get a file from somewhere.com's FTP _server_.   Then, that same client is
PUTing the file to a PC (or using the AS/400's SMB client if you go
through the QNTC filesystem, etc)

The side that does the PUT or GET is the client.   The server is the
machine that sits around waiting for these requests to be made.

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Booth Martin wrote:
>
> I agree.  I, at least, am confused.
>
> Can an FTP client GET and PUT with no server involved?  The AS/400's FTP
> server is running, and I am planning that a CL program will run an FTP
> command with an FTP script and an FTP log.
>
> Booth:
>
> > Scott, my plan is to use the AS/400 FTP server to do all of it.
>
> It looks to me as if there's confusion about "FTP server". From the way I've
> read this thread, what you'll actually be doing is using your AS/400's FTP
> _client_ rather than server.
>
> It seems you'll have someone at a PC who will run an AS/400 CLP that
> contains a STRTCPFTP or FTP command. The FTP command will be scripted to GET
> a file from the remote system and put it into the IFS. The CLP will then
> append the file onto a file stored back on the PC that ran the CLP in the
> first place.
>
> You don't say how the CLP will be run; possibly through an emulation session
>  possibly through a remote command or remote program call.
>
> Is any of this correct?
>