Re: Code to check for normal FTP completion

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden

At 04:08 PM 11/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any code they would be willing to share for checking the
>success of an FTP? I have the input and output files overridden, but now I
>need to actually check for a normal completion.

I don't have specific code, but here's the gist of what I've done. I
override stdout to a data file (not a printer file). Then, when the ftp
operation is done, I read the output (log) file (RCVF) to see if the
completion stuff I want is there—or warnings and errors. I think, in one
case, I wrote a separate CL that did this, because of the dreaded CPF0864
problem (EOF) in CL.

The ftp session has to be verbose—the default. Otherwise, the returned info
is less complete.

Every ftp server is a little different in the syntax of these messages. The
responses for the 400 are in the TCP/IP Config & Ref manual, in the chapter
on ftp server.

This kind of error handling is, as you may know, very common in the Unix
world, especially in shell scripts. They, to their good fortune, have grep,
which does, in one command, what we have to do manually on the 400, viz.,
read through a file, looking for what's called a regular expression. Maybe
we need a grep command, implemented with REXX, eh? Hmm, I might work on that.

HTH

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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