Mark Undrill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>In article <01BCC834.A15F8E60@PC17>, Klaus Franke <[log in to unmask]>
>writes
>>one of our customers has the following problem:
>>
>>he has:
>>    - mpe xl 4.0 (and no support)
>>    - ns
>>
>>he does not have
>>    - lots of money
>>    - ftp on the 3000
>>    - netware/ix
>>
>>He wants to do a filetransfer from a job on the 3000 to a pc or a novell
>> fileserver.
>>
>>I can't see a chance to do so, but perhaps one of you knows a solution to
this
>> problem (HP arpa services and dscopy???).
>>
>In the version of Netware/iX that we run there is a utility called
>NEWICOPY.NETWARE.SYS. This utility allows you to copy files from the
>Netware file system to the MPE file system. If the PC is on Netware then
>maybe you could use this to make the file available to it.
>
>This utility may not be available on the version of netware/iX that they
>are running. MPE/iX 4.0 is a bit long in the tooth.

Since he said the customer did NOT have Netware/iX, I don't think this will
be satisfactory.

The best I can come up with is an auxiliary PC that downloads the file.
Since this is from a job, there are problems with having the PC log on.  I
would suggest a serial connection to the PC with Reflection running.  The
job can then open that port, send a data file to the terminal, and command
the terminal to execute it (I think Fcopy will work).  Reflection then logs
on and downloads the file under consideration.  If the reference to the
download file is actually on the file server, it goes directly to the right
place  Reflection can run in the background.

This sounds kind of roundabout but it should work.  I had a customer that
was doing something akin to this over ten years ago when Reflection was
known as PC2622 and MPE/iX hadn't been invented yet!

John D. Alleyn-Day
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