Wirt Atmar wrote:
> It's not difficult -- if you do everything right:
>
>     ftp> quote site stream testjob
>
> However, you have to break the command above into its constituent pieces in
> order to understand what's going on.
>
> The "quote" is the part that allows the Windows FTP client to send any
> arbitrary command to the remote host (other FTP implementations sometimes use other
> verbs to do the same thing). The "site stream" is MPE's allowed mechanism to
> absorb the arbitrary command and act upon it (and may the only command to which
> MPE's FTP server responds to, I don't know).

If you were wondering what else the site command can do:

ftp> quote site help
214 Syntax: SITE <sp> HELP | MPE/iX | BUILDPARMS file-name |
USER_LABELS file-name [ <number> ] | STREAM file-name | TIMEOUT [num-secs]

Plus "site posix on" and "site posix off" which despite not being mentioned in
"site help" above, are documented in FTPDOC.ARPA.SYS.
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