Olav,

There are a couple of problems with just writing to the message file
(using FTP's 'put' command since there is no 'write' command).

1. The 'put' command will 'replace' the destination message file, risking
the deletion of any unprocessed records.

2.  If the destination file is being kept open by a process waiting to
read any records that are written to it, the FTP will fail because it will
not be able to 'replace' the file.

Regards
Paul Christidis

HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 05/04/2005
06:14:30 PM:

> Paul:
>
> You don't append to a message file, you just write to it.  The OS does
> the background logic.
>
> Olav.
>
>
> Paul Christidis wrote:
>
> >Greg,
> >
> >The last time that I tested that idea out, at least on my version of
the
> >OS, appending to a 'message' file was not supported.  I don't remember
> >seeing any messages on this list that would indicated otherwise.
> >
> >Regards
> >Paul Christidis
> >
> >HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 05/04/2005
> >01:55:56 PM:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Could the data itself simply be ftp appended to a message file?
> >>
> >>Greg Stigers
> >>
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