> > Thus it was written in the epistle of Tracy Pierce,
> > > I _thought_ I was being careful, but tried
> > > shell/iX>cd /usr/local/bin
> > > shell/iX>pwd
> > > /usr/local/bin
> > > shell/iX>ftp
> > > ftp>open remotemachine etc
> > > ftp>cd /usr/local/bin
> > > ftp>mput *.*
> > > ...and Holy Moly, I'm not only not getting what I wanted, I
> > can't seem to
> > > terminate the process.  Help?  (not having much luck
> > finding ftp docs,
> > > either.  (3 versions of "user guide" at docs.hp are just
> > enough to get me
> > > into trouble, no real help)
> >
> > For the first shot, try
> >   Control-Y
> tried that, of course, no response to ^Y.
>
> >   Break & Abort
> tried that of course, no response to Break.
> >   Abortjob from another session
> abortjob + abortio killed the mput process, got me back to an
> ftp> prompt.  I then typed 'listredo' at the ftp> prompt and
> got the good old aborted by system management messages.
>
> > in that order :-).  Assuming that you've already done those
> > things, you can
> > (if you have access on the remote machine), kill the server
> > process on the
> > remote box or (if you have sole access to the local machine)
> > pull the machine
> > loose from the network.
> >
> > Once you've stopped the process, enlighten us as to what you
> > were trying to
> > accomplish.
> local:HELLO TRACY,MANGLER.SYS
> local:sh -l
> Shell/iX>cd /usr/local/bin
> Shell/iX>ftp
> File Transfer Protocol [A0009B02] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
> ftp>open remote
> 220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0009C04] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
> Connected to hobbes (10.10.1.3).  (FTPINFO 40)
> Name(manager): manager.sys
> 331 Password required for MANAGER.SYS.  Syntax: userpass
> Password:
> 230 User logged on
> Remote system type is MPE/iX.
> ftp>cd /usr/local/bin
> ftp>mput *.*
> mput .YS? n
> mput .925? N
> mput .25.SYS? QUIT
> mput .25.sys? q
> et cetera
>
> I was simply trying to copy all the files from
> //local/usr/local/bin/
> to
> //remote/usr/local/bin/
>
> (is that syntax properly descriptive?  //local and //remote
> are machines)
>
> looks to me as though one or tuther cd's didn't do what I
> thought/hoped.  since I seem to have been copying *.*
> beginning at tiny filenames, I'd guess it was the local cd
> /usr/local/bin, but I thought I verified that I was truly in
> /usr/local/bin.
>
> I should find a safer place to play.
>
> thanks, Ted
>
> Tracy Pierce

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