Hi,

Yes, Carl is correct, this problem is a known one - SR 1653295980.
FTPFDP3(A) contains the fix for this problem.  This patch is still in
beta test state.  It does fix most of the small problems Carl refers
to.  Contact your local RC to get this patch.

Cheers,
Damian Coffey,
HP Australia.

Carl McNamee wrote:
>
> I reported this to the RC several months ago.  It was noticed at our site
> right after we updated to MPE 6.0.  I know that a patch is out to fix it but
> I cannot remember if it is GR yet; I lost track of the exact patch id since
> we have been testing lots of ftp patches here.  There were lots of small ftp
> problems introduced in 6.0 that we have run into.  You should contact the RC
> to get the correct patch.
>
> Carl McNamee
> Systems Administrator
> Billing Concepts
> (210) 949-7282
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard S. Berkowitz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] FTP failure on empty file
>
> We have noticed that in a batch job, FTP fails with an empty file, but the
> job
> does not abort. Here is an example. Our work-around, of course, will be to
> WRITE
> or ECHO some text into the file with zero records.
>
> Is this a known problem?
>
>  ftp> put hebdbnpm
>  200 PORT command successful.
>  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for hebdbnpm.
>  426 Connection closed; transfer aborted.
>  SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.  (SOCKERR 0)
>  ftp> dir
>  200 PORT command successful.
>
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