Since I first made the inquiry I've been playing around with FTP on our
systems and I think I've gotten a better understanding of the command and
its usage.  The stumbling block, for me, was the lack of an FTP/iX manual
and the terseness of the 'help site' command:
 
  ftp> HELP SITE
  SITE line-to-send
 
  Send a site-specific command to the remote server.
 
 
Connecting to another MPE/iX system and typing 'remotehelp site' or typing
in the local system 'site help', as I found out later, one gets more info
on the command's syntax:
 
   ftp> remotehelp site
   214 Syntax: SITE <sp> HELP | MPE/iX | BUILDPARMS file-name | USER_LABELS
   file-name [ <number> ] | STREAM file-name
 
Then I just tried each option as shown below:
 
   ftp> site stream jt
   200 STREAM command ok.
   ftp> FROM/J3180 MGR.SECRETS/"FTP submitted job test is done"
The above streamed a test job!!  Could be used to launch a job that depends
on data that will be placed there by another host.
 
   ftp> site MPE/iX
   200 MPE/iX command ok.
I guess the above can be used to verify that the host is an MPE/iX cpu.
 
   ftp> site buildparms jt
   213 "JT": REC=-88,53,F,ASCII;DISC=3,2
The above returns the file information for space allocation?
 
   ftp> site user_labels scrtflib.source
   213 "SCRTFLIB.SOURCE": 7
The above returns the number of user file labels in the file.
 
I hope the above helps some people.
 
Paul H. Christidis
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