RE: Odd FTP server behavior ...

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin

Along with others, you missed the deadly missing  "RCMD"

Scott K. pointed out the reason why this worked - I couldn't tell why when
I posted the same thing - refer to his recent post.

Cheers

Vern

At 07:47 AM 11/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
> On Friday 15 November 2002 11:14 pm, Gary Monnier wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > Your target file must already exist as a SAVF.  FTP will create the
> > target as a physical file if one doesn't already exist.
>
> Not strictly true. OS/400 will create the savefile for you (if it doesn't
> exist) *if* you 'put' the savefile to 'myfile.savf' instead of
> 'myfile.file', and don't bother with a member name. Saves a bit of
> typing, at least ;)
>
> ftp> quote site namefmt 1
> ftp> bin
> ftp> put mysavf /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/mysavf.savf/
>                                            ^^^^
> Regards, Martin
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