FTAM/9000 Programmer's Guide

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HP FTAM/9000 Overview
Overview of FTAM Concepts
Figure 1-2 FTAM Regime Order
FTAM Communication
The following sections describe the basic means of FTAM
communication: initiators, responders, application entities, synchronous
calls, asynchronous calls, high and low level functions, and context free
and context sensitive functions.
FTAM Regime
File Selection Regime
File Open Regime
Data Transfer Regime
FTAM Regime The FTAM regime requests FTAM services
for the connection. The FTAM regime, also
called the FTAM Association or FTAM
Initialization regime, is the outermost
regime.
File Selection
Regime
The File Selection regime references (selects)
a specific file. You can change and read
attributes during this regime.
File Open Regime During the File Open regime, a file's contents
are available for access: reading, writing,
locating, and erasing.
Data Transfer
Regime
The Data Transfer regime is the innermost
regime; it supports the transfer of actual
data.