FTAM/9000 User's Guide

48 Chapter 3

Using Command-Line FTAM

Specifying File and Directory Names

Shortcut Remote Names

You can omit the user@ portion of a remote name if your ftam startup

ﬁle contains an appropriate entry (see Chapter 4, “Special FTAM Files,”

for information about the ftam startup ﬁle).

For example, suppose you are logged in as betty on the local system,

and issue an fcp command with denver:myplan as the remote target

ﬁle name (rather than betty@denver:myplan):

$ fcp plan denver:myplan

This example command works under the following conditions:

• Your .ftamrc startup ﬁle contains a valid entry for host denver, and

user betty.

• If that entry also contains a password, the fcp command executes the

copy immediately.

• If that entry does not contain a password, you are prompted to supply

it; then fcp executes the copy.

In any case, the working directory on denver is determined by the

remote FTAM implementation; HP-UX FTAM would use betty's home

directory.