Hello Randy, Friends @3000-l

Re: FTP to HP3000 from OpenVMS 6.1

--------------------------------------------------------------------Randy says--
  I have a problem FTP'ing to a Hewlett Packard 3000.  HP has a feature when you
PUT a file, you can tag some file build parameters on the end of... eg.  PUT
fromfile tofile;REC=-100,,F,ASCII.
  This works on other clients I've tried, but it appears that FTP on OpenVMS
ALPHA V6.1 is stripping everything after the semicolon.  I've tried wrapping it
in quotes, using a comma, a space, but nothing.  I did try to turn off globbing
and let the remote host parse the filename, but then I get an access violation
and FTP abends with a dump.  Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
  randy
--------------------------------------------------------------------Randy says--

This is a little bit ugly since it has a "global" impact on the default file
build parameters for all files copied to the 3000... But, you can modify the
default FTP system wide build parms in the file BLDPARMS.ARPA.SYS file.

:print bldparms.arpa.sys
...
;REC=-80,,F,ASCII;DISC=204800    << change this one -80 to -100 >>
;REC=128,,F,BINARY;DISC=204800
;REC=,,B;DISC=16384000
...

Be beware...  this change could have an impact on other applications which
might care about the increased default record length (now 100 bytes) for all
inbound ASCII file transfers.

You may first need to :copy BLDSAMP.ARPA.SYS,BLDPARMS.ARPA.SYS and then make
the change.


Regards,

James Hofmeister
Hewlett Packard
Worldwide Technology Network Expert Center
P.S. My Ideals are my own, not necessarily my employers.