HP ARPA File Transfer Protocol User's Guide (36957-90159)

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A MPE/iX and POSIX Differences
FTP/iX has the ability to access files in both the MPE/iX and POSIX (IEEE Portable
Operating System Interface for Computing Environments) name space. The POSIX
standards define a common portable interface to files. The following information defines
access and command usage while operating in the POSIX name space environment.
• Filename size restrictions on the MPE/iX file system
• MPE/iX and POSIX file identifiers
• Working with directories
• Listing MPE/iX or POSIX files
• Bytestream files
• Transferring files