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Re: Does 'IF' really works?
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Peter Osborne <[log in to unmask]>
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Peter Osborne <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:13:05 -0400
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AFAIK you cannot do that, FTP does not honour that sort of thing, you would
have to insert the IF before running FTP and ending it at the end.

Pete

On Friday 29 October 2004 12:04, Greg Terterian wrote:
> I have the following test script:
>
> !JOB GREG,MGR.TFTP,PUB;HIPRI
> !SETVAR GREG "TRUE"
> !FTP
> OPEN 192.168.1.111
> USER MGR.TFTP
>
> PASS
> !IF GREG = "FALSE" THEN
> GET JOBSMPLE
> !ENDIF
> QUIT
> !EOJ
>
> And here is the $STDLIST for that script... as you can see, it checks the
> condition and says that it is going to ignore till it finds the matching
> endif, but is still processing the lines inbetween.  Am I missing
> something?  Or FTP does not care about the 'IF'?
>
> :JOB GREG,MGR.TFTP,PUB.
>
>  Priority = DS; HIPRI; Time = UNLIMITED seconds.
>  Job number = #j91.
>  FRI, OCT 29, 2004,  8:56 AM.
>  HP3000  Release: C.70.00   User Version: C.70.00
>  MPE/iX  HP31900 C.39.06  Copyright Hewlett-Packard 1987.
>  All rights reserved.
>  STREAMED BY GREG,OP.AMSOP (#S88) ON LDEV# 8
>     STREAM DATE:   FRI, OCT 29, 2004,  8:56 AM
>
>  :SETVAR GREG "TRUE"
>  :FTP
>
>  File Transfer Protocol [A0011L11] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 2002 [PASSIVE
> SUPPORT ]
>  ftp> OPEN 192.168.1.111
>  220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0011L10] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 2000 [PASV
> SUPPORT] Connected to 192.168.1.111.  (FTPINFO 40)
>  ftp> USER MGR.TFTP
>  230 User logged on
>  Remote system type is MPE/iX
>  200 Type set to I.
>  ftp>
> (24/43) Continue?
>  ftp> PASS
>  Passive mode is on.
>  ftp> :IF GREG = "FALSE" THEN
>  *** EXPRESSION FALSE: COMMANDS IGNORED UNTIL MATCHING ELSEIF/ELSE
>  /ENDIF
>  ftp> GET JOBSMPLE
>  227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,111,226,8)
>  150 File: JOBSMPLE opened; data connection will be opened
>  227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,111,226,10)
>  150 File: JOBSMPLE opened; data connection will be opened
>  There is an error closing the target file.  (FTPERR 67)
>  226 Transfer complete.
>  ftp> :ENDIF
>  *** RESUME EXECUTION OF COMMANDS
>  ftp> QUIT
>  221 Server is closing command connection
>
>  :EOJ
>
>  CPU sec. = 3.  elapsed min. = 1.  FRI, OCT 29, 2004,  8:56 AM.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help!
>
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