On Tuesday, June 24, 1997 8:42 AM, SA MacLaughlin
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> You could use Reflection, by scheduling a job on the HP3000 that
> starts a session (STARTSESSION) on a PC (not in use, of course).
> The session logon could have an logon UDC which invokes a
> Reflection command file. Probably, more complicated than using FTP.
> Sorry, can't help you there - but if you want to pursue the above
> path maybe I can help.
>
> Bing writes:
> ...
> But if I use reflection to transfer this file, all those French
> characters transferred correctly. But I don't want to use
> reflection to do it because reflection transfer cannot write into a
> MPE job. That file changes everyday. I don't want to do this
> transfer manually every day.

One thing to remember about using Reflection Commands from the host
is that there already needs to be a session running - and starting a
session on PC is impossible if using NS/VT as there is no dedicated
LDEV.  If it's on a serial connection via DTC - then it's possible.

As for FTP - it supports the 7-bit character set only --- FTP is
rudimentary in some cases when compared to the Termulator Transfers
(Reflection, MS92, etc), and I don't believe that there are any RFCs
which address the 8-bit character set which would include support for
characters in languages other than English (unfortunately).

This can be done using HTTP, as opposed to FTP - but the user would
need to initiate the transfer with a web page.  The file can be
located in an accessible directory - a simple web page with a
hyperlink to the file, and it will be transferred down.  For the
HP3000, QWEBS can do this quite nicely (see http://www.qss.com) as it
relies on fixed-length, HP3000-style records and character sets.

Cheers,
Joe

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