Modern versions of the MPE FTP server support a "SITE POSIX ON" command that
can be done from the client side of the FTP connection in order to enable
wildcard mputs of POSIX-named files to work properly.

- Mark B.

Peter Smithson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a lot of files on a PC with the extension ".xml".  I need to get
> them onto the HP3000 machine we have here.
>
> I can use ftp and type "put abc.xml ./abc.xml" and that works fine as ftp
> (or something) realises that I'm talking about a POSIX file name because of
> the leading "./".
>
> But I can't do  "mput *.xml ./".  I get an error about a non existent
> group.
>
> So how do I do it?  I've managed to do it with other files by using the
> UNIX
> utility "tar" on the PC and on HP3000 but I need a general way to do it
> without this UNIX utility being available on both machines.
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