Hello John,

I recall seeing a similar problem a few months back.
If my memory serves me right, VM FTP doesn't "like"
our semi-colon buildparms syntax.

SITE BUILDPARMS only gives the buildparms for a file
on the MPE system - it cannot be used to set the buildparms.

No idea if Jeff's quote strategy works; if so, fine.

The other is "get" from MPE - again great, if you can
manage it.

Otherwise, another strategy is as follows...

Log into the MPE system (where you want the file to
be transferred).  Edit the BLDPARMS file. The following
are the lines that matter.

;REC=-80,,F,ASCII;DISC=204800
;REC=-256,,V,BINARY;DISC=204800
;REC=,,B;DISC=16384000

Depending on whether you are doing
an ASCII or BINARY transfer, edit the corresponding
line to replace "-80" or "-256" with "-228" (I'm
assuming you meant 228 byte records in your file).
Then, when you put, the target file will be created the
way you want.

You might want to restore the old BLDPARMS after that
so that other files aren't created similarly.

Hopefully there will be better ideas.

Let us know how it turns out!
--
Best regards,
Raghu  (mail me at rram at india dot hp dot com)

CSY R & D, Bangalore, INDIA
Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not HP's

Jeff Kell wrote:
>
> "John C. Vestal" wrote:
>
> > I need a little FTP help.  I have a system (VM) that wants to place
> > a 228 byte file on my MPE system.  I can't seem to find a way to
> > tell the VM system to send the HP box the buildparms needed.  Does
> > anyone know how we can do this?
>
> It has been a few years since our VM system went out the door, but
> as a rule of thumb you can possibly get FTP to do this by using the
> lowest level commands possible.  For example, VM might not like you
> tagging on buildparms on the PUT line.  You could try:
>
>    SITE BUILDPARMS <whatever REC= specs you need>
>
> Failing that, you might try the more primitive "QUOT" (Quote) client
> command which is supposed to pass an FTP directive literally:
>
>    QUOT SITE BUILDPARMS <whatever REC= specs you need>
>
> If you're going in the other direction, I do seem to recall that MPE's
> FTP (and other clients) could not supply the "ACCT userid cuu"
> specification to give your home directory (for CMS anyway), and I
> had to use "QUOT ACCT userid cuu" to specify the minidisk I wanted.
>
> Finally, you might try quoting the MPE-namespace side:
>
>    PUT MYDATA.FILE.B1 "MYDATA;REC=-228,,F,ASCII"
>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>