Dig deep within the reflection manuals and you'll find the proper escape
sequences to "control" a reflection session (something like <esc>&c, I
think)  In a session, you'd "echo" these to the PC and the PC would act upon
it.  Be aware, however, that the very next thing the PC is going to do is
issue a :RUN command to launch the HP side of the file transfer process, so
your job/command file needs to take that into account.

You can also use the fact that current versions of Reflection use VBA and
will "expose" itself as an OLE application (meaning you can use the full VB
product to "control" reflection)  You could write a reflection-specific
"script" that causes the PC to log on and initiate a transfer [we have one
guy here at work that, when he leaves, he starts up this script which waits
until 2:10 am to log on and grab a file -- it's over 100mb, so even on the
LAN it takes a while to load -- ultimately, he transfers these to CD-R]
Alternatively, you could write a full VB program that "launches" reflection
(by way of doing a set myobject=new("reflection1").application, or something
like that...) Again, this VB program would issue "myobject.transmit
'hello...'" and "myobject.send localfile,hostfile,rcOverwrite" commands)

But these are the "cumbersome" methods -- easier methods are as follows:

   1) set up an FTP server on the HP.  I believe there are Novell FTP
clients available (if not, it's easy enough to use a DOS .BAT file to run
the windows FTP client in text mode and transfer files from a "Novell
share")
   2) set up Samba on the HP, then the Novell server could simply
connect-and-copy the files from a "Novell" shared directory to an SMB
directory "share"  (ncopy might even work for this -- been awhile since I
dealt with Novell networks...)
   3) setup an SMB compatible "share" on the Novell server and use SMBCLIENT
on the HP to "pull" the files from the server (or push -- you didn't say
which way the files were going)  For this, you don't actually need Samba
"running" on the HP -- you're using the HP as a CLIENT rather than a SERVER
in this case.  This would probably be the best solution if "security" is a
concern -- you wouldn't be running an "open" server on the HP [which might
allow others to get or put files without the normal "logon" procedure]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Kraft [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] File Transfer
>
>
> Hello all.
>
> In our shop when we want to transfer a file to or from the
> 3000, we use the file transfer option in Reflection.  We
> would like to have a job running nightly that could transfer
> a set of files from a Novell network drive to the 3000.
> However, I cannot determine what needs to be included in my
> job to actually do the transfer.  Are there specific 3000
> commands that I can include in a streamed job to upload a
> file to the 3000?  I've seen this done before using Minisoft.
>
> TIA,
>
> NK
>