I'm trying to have the HP3000 do an FTP 'get' from a site that needs to remote file name to be a big (and confidential) string inside double quotes, containing single quotes, $, = , etc.

MPE's ftp doesn't seem to like it, as in
ftp> get "$$ a=b c='d' e=f g=h" F;rec=-225,,f,ascii
The FILE EQUATION STRING option (item# 52) is not in a valid file equation
form.  (FILE OPEN ERROR -449)

The big character string works for getting the file on a PC, so I think it is an issue with MPE's version of ftp.

Any workarounds? Patches?
 
In case it  matters: we are on mpe 7.0 express 1, soon to be 7.5. "The tape is in the mail'.

We are on HP support (HP are you listening?).  If I don't get an answer here soon I'll be putting in a service call.


Also, is there an 80-character limit on an fpt command line?  When I tried the above command with a longer file name, I got the same error message but with everything past the 80th character chopped off the error message.  Just curious on this bit, a one-letter file name get the line under 80 bytes.

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