RE: Understanding and Using OS/400 file systems

See inline.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com
> [mailto:oliver.wenzel@cibavision.novartis.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:22 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Understanding and Using OS/400 file systems
> 
> 
> Basically, I need to FTP a physical file to an Unix system. So I do an
> CPYTOIMPF to get a plain text file
> and that seems to work.
> 
> But where should I create this text file:  in /home/userx or 
> in /qdls/userx
> or somewhere else? My stupid question
> is , what is the difference?

I would avoid /qdls for anything like this.  It is the old DLO file system
and it's performance isn't as good.  The root file system is more like a PC
type file system and works better for this sort of thing.

> 
> Can I access /home/userx somehow from a windows pc?

Sure, just share it through NetServer and the PC can map a drive to it.