Re: Make downloading/uploading file members easier with FTP

On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:27 am, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> 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 work one box is *HOMEDIR and the other is *CURLIB. I don't bother with
a namefmt for either. I also tried on Netshare400 which I'm assuming is
*CURLIB (can't get through to it at present to confirm) as ftp always
puts me in my library to start with. I don't do transfers in namefmt 0
format, so that maybe explains why I don't get a failure switching to it.
Are there any advantages to using 0 instead of 1? 1 is more like
'regular' ftp (IMO) so I stick with it.

Regards, Martin
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