Re: Retrieve Remote Object Description

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, if you know where it is, you can use FTP. If all you need is to see 
it, you can use

dir /qsys.lib/vern.lib/xcsecrtn.savf     (namefmt 1)

or

dir vern/xcsecrtn          (namefmt 0)

The size is in the second column.

If you need it in a program, you use the same subcommands. But you would 
have a script for the FTP commands and an output file. On a 400 you use 
overrides - details are in the FTP manual in InfoCenter or maybe in the 
TCP/IP Reference manual. Basically you OVRDBF INPUT FTPSCRIPT and OVRDBF 
OUTPUT OUTFILE. Then execute FTP in your program. This is the same thing as 
what is called batch FTP. On a PC you use redirection for the output and 
the -s switch for the script. Type ftp -h to get help. Then your program 
can read the output file to get the size.

This method does everything on the local machine. It is also possible to 
run commands on the remote box (either RUNRMTCMD from a command line, or 
RCMD in FTP, a couple other choices). Then a variety of options exist. A 
DDM file pointing to the remote box would let you use OUTFILE support in 
DSPOBJD, then you can just read that file through the DDM file in your program.

There are probably many more ways that could involve transferring the 
output of a command on the remote box to the local system.

HTH
Vern

At 05:11 AM 4/27/2004, you wrote:
> Hi @All!
>
> Is there a way to retrieve the size of an object (save file) on a remote
> system via *IP???
>
> Titus Kruse