User`s guide

FTP (File

Transfer

Protocol)

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UNIX Utilities

printer, check the number of jobs in the print queue, list the available

fonts, and send files to the printer.

While FTP is an interactive program that requires you to log on the

printer before sending commands, these commands can be entered

into a UNIX shell script or a PC batch file that executes the com-

mands automatically. In this way, a continuous check of the printer job

queue, for example, can be done by writing a script that loops around

the appropriate FTP commands.

Supported FTP Commands

Since several FTP commands are not applicable to a printing environ-

ment, the QMS implementation supports a printer-related subset of

the standard FTP commands. Because requests for information such

as job status or a list of current fonts are not explicit FTP commands,

other methods are used to obtain this type of information. These

methods are described later in this chapter.

It is important to note that all versions of FTP are not identical. How-

ever, the following commands are supported by most implementa-

tions of FTP, including the QMS implementation:

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