Here's something that is easy on MPE but we cannot figure out in UNIX...

We need to create a script on a UNIX box to log into a IBM VSE system and
ftp a file back.  It works fine interactively but we cannot get it to work
in a script; it always hangs on the user name & password.  Our sys admin
isn't even sure that it is opening the VSE connection.  Has anyone had any
experience with this?  What's the trick?

Here's the script we started with and have tried many variations of it.
open xx.xx.xx.xx
user uuuuu
pass pppppp
CD MYDIR
dir
close

And here's what we get

ftp <f
Password:Name (xx.xx.xx.xx:mmmm):
Syntax error in parameters or arguments.
Login failed.
Passive mode on.
?Invalid command
Syntax error, command unrecognized.
Passive mode refused. Turning off passive mode.
Syntax error, command unrecognized.
Syntax error, command unrecognized.




Thanks!

Allen Porter
Maritz Research, St. Louis
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