FTAM/9000 User's Guide

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Using Interactive FTAM
Basic Steps for Using ftam
Step 4: Ending an ftam Session
To close the current ftam connection, but remain in ftam, enter close at
the ftam prompt. If you want, you can then use the open command to
open a connection to a different remote host.
ftam> close
Released connection to denver.
ftam> open madrid
To end an ftam session altogether and return to your system prompt,
enter quit at the ftam prompt.
ftam> quit
Released connection to denver.
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Obtaining Help
To get a complete list of all the ftam commands, enter ? at the ftam
prompt. To get help about a specific ftam command, enter ? followed by
the ftam command. For example:
ftam> ?
or
ftam> ? open
Notes About Remote File and Directory
Names
Note the following important points about remote file names:
• Directory names are legal only in ls, dir, and cattr commands.
Directory names are not legal as source or destination file names.
• Wildcard characters are not legal. This applies to both source and
destination names.
• Remote file names must be specified with the native syntax, notation,
and conventions of the remote host. FTAM cannot translate or
negotiate file names between different hosts, so any name you provide
has to be valid on the system that uses it.
• All names are relative to the remote working directory, unless you
provide an absolute pathname for a file or directory (in whatever way
the remote system defines “absolute pathname”).