On Fri, September 26, 2008 15:41, donna hofmeister wrote:
> alas, it appears that james has indeed hit a bug in mpe's ftp for mget :-(

:ftp
File Transfer Protocol [A0012H14] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 2002 [PASSIVE
SUPPORT]
ftp> open 192.168.219.1
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5)
Connected to 192.168.219.1.  (FTPINFO 40)
Name(manager): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX
ftp> byte
200 Switching to Binary mode.
ftp> cd ftp-drop
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50       506740992 Sep 26 08:07 STDHAL.1.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50       325265920 Sep 26 08:19 STDHAL.2.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50       561713920 Sep 26 08:41 STDHAL.3.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50       564188160 Sep 26 09:03 STDHAL.4.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50        9747456 Sep 25 18:03 TEST.1.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50       18894848 Sep 25 18:04 TEST.2.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50        7290624 Sep 25 18:04 TEST.3.1
-rw-r--r--    1 14       50        8643840 Sep 25 18:04 TEST.4.1
226 Directory send OK.
540 bytes received in 0.02 seconds (32.96 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> mget ./TEST*1.1
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
226 Directory send OK.
40 bytes received in 0.02 seconds (1.86 Kbytes/sec)
mget TEST.1.1? y
The group name provided did not start with an alphabetic character.
(FILE SYSTEM ERROR -117)
mget TEST.2.1? y
mget TEST.3.1? y
mget TEST.4.1? y
ftp> get ./TEST.1.1 ./TEST.1.1
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for ./TEST.1.1 (9747456 bytes).
226 File send OK.
9747456 bytes received in 13.69 seconds (695.43 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>

Moving files one at a time using get and prefacing the target name with ./
evidently works.  The lost of mput is an inconvenience, not a show
stopper.  I can script a dynamic command builder to handle the n file
problem.  The ftpcmd input file is built on the fly inside the job anyway.

Sigh.  I was working on this back in September of 2005 and was
interrupted.  It too bad that I did not get a few more weeks to work on it
then otherwise this would have been discovered much earlier.

That terrible word, if...

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

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