FTAM/9000 Programmer's Guide

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HP FTAM/9000 Overview
File Transfer, Access and Management (FTAM) is an international
standard for transfer, access, and management of files in an open
network. HP FTAM/9000 is an HP implementation of this standard; it
offers the C language programmatic interface defined for MAP 3.0
FTAM, which in turn, provides you with the following capabilities.
• Multivendor connectivity
• Text and binary file transfers
• File access (record level locate and read)
• File management, including the following:
• File creation and deletion
• File attribute manipulation (read and change)
• Security mechanisms such as file locking, filestore passwords, and
concurrency control, and file access control