Re: Make downloading/uploading file members easier with FTP

Take a look at CHGFTPA on your system and see what the value is. It's
*HOMEDIR on our machine, so it points to an IFS folder, therefore NAMEFMT
has to be 1. Not knowing this, when I tried to CD to a file using the
library naming format, it failed.

If NAMEFMT is 0 (library style) and you CD /, it will change to NAMEFMT 1
automatically.

BTW, you cannot change to NAMEFMT 0 if your current directory is in the IFS
(not SQYS.LIB)

At 06:17 PM 4/26/02 +0100, you wrote:
>On Friday 26 April 2002 1:15 pm, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> > Right on.
> >
> > But I found a funny wrinkle, at least in v5r1, which prompted this in
> > the first place. You can set FTP to use either *CURLIB or *HOMEDIR
> > special values for initial directory. *HOMEDIR forces the NAMEFMT 1.
> > But if didn't know this and tried to CD yourlib/yourfile, in NAMEFMT 0
> > style, it fails.
>
>Hmm. I've only done this at V4R4 & R5 and it's been okay. I wonder if it
>a leading '/' that triggers the system to switch convention. I guess it's
>covered in the docs somewhere, so I'll have a look this w/e as it's got
>me puzzled now.
>
>Regards, Martin
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