"David Powell" <[log in to unmask]> schreef in bericht
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> I'm trying to have the HP3000 do an FTP 'get' from a site that needs to
remote file name to be a big (and confidential) string inside double quotes,
containing single quotes, $, = , etc.
>
> MPE's ftp doesn't seem to like it, as in
> ftp> get "$$ a=b c='d' e=f g=h" F;rec=-225,,f,ascii
> The FILE EQUATION STRING option (item# 52) is not in a valid file equation
> form.  (FILE OPEN ERROR -449)
>
> The big character string works for getting the file on a PC, so I think it
is an issue with MPE's version of ftp.
>
> Any workarounds? Patches?
>
> In case it  matters: we are on mpe 7.0 express 1, soon to be 7.5. "The
tape is in the mail'.
>
> We are on HP support (HP are you listening?).  If I don't get an answer
here soon I'll be putting in a service call.
>
>
> Also, is there an 80-character limit on an fpt command line?  When I tried
the above command with a longer file name, I got the same error message but
with everything past the 80th character chopped off the error message.  Just
curious on this bit, a one-letter file name get the line under 80 bytes.
>
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David,


It sometime help to put a \ in front of special characters.

So try \' where the remote filename has a '.


Regards,


Jan Gerrit

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