After some investigation I came to the conclusion that the 'site MPE/iX'
command is used by the client to identify its version number to the server
after it has determined that the server runs on an MPE machine.

Just run 'ftp' with debug enabled and try to connect to different machines.
When the destination is another MPE/iX machine you'll also see the client
sending its version as a parameter of the 'site MPE/iX' command.

Regards
Paul H. Christidis

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Subject: Re: FTP launching of job
Author:  "Raghuram B." <[log in to unmask]> at CCGATE
Date:    03/05/98 07:19

Hello!

Glenn Cole wrote:

> The part I can't figure out is that you can type
>
>         ftp> site mpe/ix
>         200 MPE/iX command ok.
>
> but I don't know what this means.  (It doesn't say "MPE/iX command allowed."
> Is it just saying "Yep, I see you sent the ol' MPE/iX command"?)

In the above case, mpe/ix is like any other FTP server
command like PORT or TIMEOUT.  Just as you get

200 PORT command ok
200 TIMEOUT command ok,

you get

200 MPE/iX command ok, indicating a successful execution of
the command (though, in fact, nothing gets executed).

To my knowledge, "site mpe/ix" command does nothing useful!
--
With best regards,
Raghuram B.
Hewlett-Packard India Software Operation, Bangalore
(Mail me : rram at india dot hp dot com; desperate anti-spam measure)

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