Thanks - that does it. Also thanks for the other reply mentioning tar - I didn't realise it came as stanard with MPE. We've got a POSIX shell on our MPE system but I never know what we've added and what came with it. Peter >From: "Paul H. Christidis" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Transferring files from PC to HP3000 >Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:16:55 -0700 > >Peter, > >Assuming that the user will be using a DOS window to issue his commands to >transfer these '.xml' files then the following should work (providing you >have a recent enough version of the MPE/iX ftp server). > >ftp>open .... >... >ftp>quote type L (to select bytestream transfer) >ftp>prompt (to disable prompting for each file) >ftp>quote site posix on (to indicate usage of HFS directory) >ftp>mput *.xml >ftp>quit _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *