Leonard

The problem, IIRC is that the LIMIT is also set to zero. This happens with
Suprtool and some other products.

There are options in the products to not set the LIMIT to the number of
records in this case zero).

As far as this being a bug, I leave that to the goods folks at HP.

Dave


At 01:52 PM 7/6/00, Leonard S. Berkowitz wrote:
>We have noticed that in a batch job, FTP fails with an empty file, but the job
>does not abort. Here is an example. Our work-around, of course, will be to
>WRITE
>or ECHO some text into the file with zero records.
>
>Is this a known problem?
>
>  ftp> put hebdbnpm
>  200 PORT command successful.
>  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for hebdbnpm.
>  426 Connection closed; transfer aborted.
>  SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.  (SOCKERR 0)
>  ftp> dir
>  200 PORT command successful.
>
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