By using ECHO, you can create an input file to FTP in which the name of
!RAFILE is resolved.

:IF FINFO("FTPIN","EXISTS") THEN
:    IF (![FINFO("FTPIN","FOPTIONS")] BAND 1 = 1) THEN
:        PURGE FTPIN
:    ENDIF
:ENDIF
:IF FINFO("FTPIN","EXISTS") THEN
:    IF (![FINFO("FTPIN","FOPTIONS")] BAND 2 = 2) THEN
:        PURGE FTPIN,TEMP
:    ENDIF
:ENDIF
:ECHO open {whatever} >FTPIN
:ECHO {username} >>FTPIN
:ECHO {password} >>FTPIN
:ECHO cd {directory information} >>FTPIN
:ECHO binary /*if binary mode is needed*/ >>FTPIN
:ECHO put !RAFILE target_file >>FTPIN
:ECHO exit >> FTPIN
:RUN FTP.ARPA.SYS<FTPIN

I assume you understand Command I/O Redirection (CIOR).  If not, please call.

While it may seem like excessive zeal to purge a temporary file in a job stream,
I always include the code as all of these routines are tested on-line first.
Thus, I always have a clone-potential for a new task.  I have been burned, in
testing, by a temporary file that already existed.  For example, if my first
ECHO statement had '>>' instead of '>', that's can be fun.

If you PRINT FTPIN, you will see the real name of RAFILE.

Leonard Berkowitz
RIA Group (Warren, Gorham & Lamont)
617-292-8349 (E. S. T.)




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Subject: help with ftp
Author:  [log in to unmask] at Internet-Exchange
Date:    11/02/96 12:19 PM


Can anyone tell me how to pass a file name into FTP from a job stream where
the name of the file is not known until run time. The filename takes the form
of
RAddmmXX where ddmm is day and month. Everything is ok within MPE where
the file can be manipulated using the variable !RAFILE, but this is not
recognised
by FTP.

How do I go about this? I can be contacted by email at
[log in to unmask] or at [log in to unmask] or by
posting your solutions to the newsgroup.

Thanks in anticipation,

Michael Duignan.