Hello Everyone,
Very interesting solutions, I don't have Samba or NFS/iX, so will use
Procomm and/or Perl (Rich Roemer's suggestion). I have some experience with
Procomm Scripts but didn't know if it can handle multiple files?
Will use Perl (looping for multiple files download or mget) and Procomm for
burning CD and scheduling.
This list is so helpful.
Thanks so much!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan M. Backus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: To automate multiple files transfer from HP3000 to PC
Rick,
Yes, you could use Samba. You could also use NFS/iX from Quest,
which is a
nice product. But, the original question was, can it be done with
Reflection or FTP, and the answer is 'yes'. This may imply the desire to go
low cost and/or with technology they already know. I chose to use Procom
for my scripting because 1) it did FTP, 2) it allowed for command line
execution of other programs, such as pkzip, pgp, etc., 3) it did email, 4)
it would allow for the execution of one command after another in
Windows95/98, 5) it came with a scheduler, and 6) I already had a copy.
Most of this could also be done with Reflection Basic just as easily and at
no additional cost.
Thanx,
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Clark, Rick
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:27 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer from HP3000
to PC
What about Samba? Map the HP3000 as a drive and 'copy' the files to the CD.
I didn't realize that the CD burning was part of the automated process (not
thinking), but would a windows scheduler help here?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Saylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:24 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer
> from HP3000
> to PC
>
>
> Excellent. This process would work even better with a tool like NFS/iX
> Server on the HP3000 this way the files are accessed. By
> accessing them you
> can read the records and apply the business logic Jon
> suggests to get them
> on a CD. This would mean the files would not even need to be
> transfered.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan M. Backus
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 11/29/01 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: To automate multiple files transfer from HP3000 to PC
>
> Rick,
>
> That would get the files from the 3000 down to the PC but
> doesn't really
> address the issue of getting them burned onto a CD. That is why I
> decided
> to take the model where the PC was the driver of the whole
> operation and
> pulled the files. The 3000 was simply a location to get a file from,
> which
> start the process, but all of the "business logic" or work
> happened once
> the
> file was down to the PC or network. The other option is to have the
> 3000
> push the files, like you described and then you would still
> have to have
> a
> PC based process recognize that the files arrived and then do the
> processing
> against them.
>
> Thanx,
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Clark, Rick
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer
> from HP3000
> to PC
>
>
> There are two ways to handle this in FTP from the 3000-
> 1) Use the MPUT/MGET command with wildcards
> 2) Use the MPUT/MGET command with indirect file
>
> For example, the files are named NEW01 through NEW35. Using ftp you
> would do
> a
>
> ftp>MPUT NEW*
>
>
>
> or if each file name is different
>
> ftp> MPUT ^file
>
> where ^file contains the list of file names to move over. You
> can easily
> create this file by LISTF >filename if the files are different each
> time.
>
>
> ftp>help mput
>
> Expand wild-cards in the list of local files given as arguments and
> do a put for each file in the resulting list. Instead of using wild-
> cards, you may provide an indirect file by preceding that file's
> name with the caret symbol (^). Optionally, build parameters can be
> specified if the remote is an MPE/XL system. The build parameters
> will affect each file in the transfer. In effect, ";build-parms" is
> appended to each file name. Non-MPE/XL FTP Servers will not interpret
> the build parameters as intended. Use the CASE command to force the
> resulting file names to contain all lower case letters.
>
> **NOTE** Of course this requires a FTP listener on the pc. We use one
> but
> the name escapes me right now.
>
> HTH
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tawny Tran [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:44 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer
> from HP3000 to
> > PC
> >
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > We have about 35 files which need to download to pc then copy
> > to the CD
> > daily.
> > Is there any way to automate the task using either
> Reflection or FTP?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > [log in to unmask]
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