Installing and Managing HP ARPA File Transfer Protocol Network Manager's Guide (36957-90157)
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Managing FTP
FTP User Commands on MPE/iX
intended. The resulting file names are in upper case
letters unless you use the CASE command to force the
resulting file names to all lower case letters.
OPEN
remotehostname Opens a connection to the remote host specified. Must
be either an ARPA domain name, IP address, or an NS
node name.
PROMPT Toggle interactive prompting. Interactive prompting is
used during multiple file transfers to allow the user to
selectively retrieve or restore files, and during multiple
file deletes to selectively delete. If prompting is turned
off, the default for MGET and MPUT is to transfer all files,
and the default for MDELETE is to delete all files.
PUT localfile
[remotefile]
[;move] Transfers a local file to a file on the remote system. If
the remote file name is not specified, the file is saved
with the local file name (assuming a legal file name).
Optionally, build parameters can be specified if the
remote system is an MPE/iX system.
PWD Displays the name of the remote working directory on
the terminal.
QUIT Closes the connection to the remote system and exits
from FTP.
QUOTE string Sends server commands to the remote host. Used for
troubleshooting.
RECV remotefile
[localfile]
[;buildparms] A synonym for the GET command.
REMOTEHELP
[servercommand] Displays the remote host FTP server commands
supported. If a server command is specified with the
REMOTEHELP command, a brief description of the
command is displayed. (Implementation dependent).
RENAME remotefile
newname Renames a remote file.
REPLACE Toggles the internal replace flag and the value of the
environment variable FTPREPLACE to either TRUE (on)
or FALSE (off). This flag specifies the file placement
policy during subsequent file transfers.
on sets the internal replace flag and the
value of the FTPREPLACE CI
environment variable to TRUE (this is