In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

Hi,

> First off, is it possible to FTP something from a non-MPE machine
> directly to the MPE spooler?  We currently have reports submitted
> directly to the spooler through NRJE (??) connections from an IBM
> mainframe but get our data from the same machine via FTP.  We would like
> to ditch the SNA lines and stick with TCP/IP but we are stumbling over
> the printing issue.

  I can't speak for HP's FTP, but with the <plug> Office Extend FTP
Server, you can send a text file to the remote system and just add a
;DEV=LP to the end of the filename. </plug>

> Second, we have data files on one MPE/iX machine with a record length of
> 256.  We need only the first 175 bytes of these records transferred to a
> second MPE/iX machine.  FTP used to truncate the records for us when we
> specified the shorter record length in the build parameters of the PUT
> command but no longer seems to do so.  Is this still possible, or were
> we taking advantage of a "feature" that has been fixed?

Again, I haven't tried it with HP's FTP; OE FTP wants a destination recsize
the same size or greater than the source. Perhaps a simple script that
fcopy's the file to a temp file with the smaller record size, then ftp that
file.


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