What about Samba? Map the HP3000 as a drive and 'copy' the files to the CD.

I didn't realize that the CD burning was part of the automated process (not
thinking), but would a windows scheduler help here?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Saylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:24 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer
> from HP3000
> to PC
>
>
> Excellent. This process would work even better with a tool like NFS/iX
> Server on the HP3000 this way the files are accessed. By
> accessing them you
> can read the records and apply the business logic Jon
> suggests to get them
> on a CD. This would mean the files would not even need to be
> transfered.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan M. Backus
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 11/29/01 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: To automate multiple files transfer from HP3000 to PC
>
> Rick,
>
>         That would get the files from the 3000 down to the PC but
> doesn't really
> address the issue of getting them burned onto a CD.  That is why I
> decided
> to take the model where the PC was the driver of the whole
> operation and
> pulled the files.  The 3000 was simply a location to get a file from,
> which
> start the process, but all of the "business logic" or work
> happened once
> the
> file was down to the PC or network.  The other option is to have the
> 3000
> push the files, like you described and then you would still
> have to have
> a
> PC based process recognize that the files arrived and then do the
> processing
> against them.
>
> Thanx,
>         Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Clark, Rick
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer
> from HP3000
> to PC
>
>
> There are two ways to handle this in FTP from the 3000-
> 1) Use the MPUT/MGET command with wildcards
> 2) Use the MPUT/MGET command with indirect file
>
> For example, the files are named NEW01 through NEW35. Using ftp you
> would do
> a
>
> ftp>MPUT NEW*
>
>
>
> or if each file name is different
>
> ftp> MPUT ^file
>
> where ^file contains the list of file names to move over. You
> can easily
> create this file by LISTF >filename if the files are different each
> time.
>
>
> ftp>help mput
>
> Expand wild-cards in the list of local files given as arguments and
> do a put for each file in the resulting list.  Instead of using wild-
> cards, you may provide an indirect file by preceding that file's
> name with the caret symbol (^).  Optionally, build parameters can be
> specified if the remote is an MPE/XL system.  The build parameters
> will affect each file in the transfer.  In effect, ";build-parms" is
> appended to each file name.  Non-MPE/XL FTP Servers will not interpret
> the build parameters as intended.  Use the CASE command to force the
> resulting file names to contain all lower case letters.
>
> **NOTE** Of course this requires a FTP listener on the pc. We use one
> but
> the name escapes me right now.
>
> HTH
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tawny Tran [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:44 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] To automate multiple files transfer
> from HP3000 to
> > PC
> >
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > We have about 35 files which need to download to pc then copy
> > to the CD
> > daily.
> > Is there any way to automate the task using either
> Reflection or FTP?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
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