I can't help you with the file name issue, but the workaround for the
80-character issue is to use the & continuation character. For example:

!    echo get !pc_file_name & >> *ftpcmds
!    echo !mpe_file_name bytefile >> *ftpcmds

   <snip>

!  run ftp.arpa.sys;stdin=*ftpcmds


is a snippet of a jobstream which gets a file from a PC server and stores
it on the HP. pc_file_name is a very long name and would blow the
80-character limit if the & weren't used.

At 04:28 PM 11/3/2003, David Powell wrote:
>I'm trying to have the HP3000 do an FTP 'get' from a site that needs to
>remote file name to be a big (and confidential) string inside double
>quotes, containing single quotes, $, = , etc.
>
>MPE's ftp doesn't seem to like it, as in
>ftp> get "$$ a=b c='d' e=f g=h" F;rec=-225,,f,ascii
>The FILE EQUATION STRING option (item# 52) is not in a valid file equation
>form.  (FILE OPEN ERROR -449)
>
>The big character string works for getting the file on a PC, so I think it
>is an issue with MPE's version of ftp.
>
>Any workarounds? Patches?
>
>In case it  matters: we are on mpe 7.0 express 1, soon to be 7.5. "The
>tape is in the mail'.
>
>We are on HP support (HP are you listening?).  If I don't get an answer
>here soon I'll be putting in a service call.
>
>
>Also, is there an 80-character limit on an fpt command line?  When I tried
>the above command with a longer file name, I got the same error message
>but with everything past the 80th character chopped off the error
>message.  Just curious on this bit, a one-letter file name get the line
>under 80 bytes.

--
Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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