FTAM/9000 User's Guide

18 Chapter 1
A Foundation for Using FTAM
HP FTAM/9000
The command-line interface to HP-UX FTAM is patterned after a similar
ARPA networking service called rcp. Command-line FTAM is covered in
Chapter 3, “Using Command-Line FTAM.” For simple file transfers,
command-line FTAM is frequently the best approach.
Programmatic FTAM
This interface is for programmers only. It is used to develop applications
that use FTAM services during their execution. The programmatic
FTAM interface comes from the Manufacturing Automation Protocol
(MAP), an industry-defined protocol specification that includes FTAM. It
is extremely flexible, and is rather complex because it exposes all the
features of FTAM.
Programmatic FTAM is described in a separate manual, the HP
FTAM/9000 Programmer's Guide. Only experienced programmers will
be interested in programmatic FTAM .