Hello John,

BLDPARMS file DOES get used, in all cases.  As Paul and Neil
specified, you can override by specifying the buildparms yourself.

I'm surprised "get" worked. I'd have expected it to give
the following :

Some records were truncated during transfer.  (FTPWARN 15 )
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure that the file you obtained by "get" wasn't
truncated after 80 bytes?  If "put" resulted in 80 byte
records, so should have "get"!

Hope this helps.
--
Best regards,
Raghu

Raghuram B.
CSY R & D, Bangalore, INDIA

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John Archer wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on an application that is sending a file from a unix box via FTP to
> my 3k.
> The file is 236 bytes all displayable characters. So far my results seem to be:
>
>  PUT (ascii) --->>  80 records
>  PUT (binary) -->> 256 bytes w/ successive records wrapping forward to
> make up
>                                                    the remaining bytes to fill
> the record.
>  GET(ascii from the 3k) -->> File ok.
>
> Does the BLDPARMS file used when FTP is initiated from another box or not. I
> would like to
> put the burden of transmission on the other system where the data originates.
>
> Any and all help is appreciated,
> John