Re: FTP file naming issue

["Francis Lapeyre" <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx>]

I used Scott Klement's FTPAPI to do pretty much what you are doing. There is
an example program for what you are trying to do that's included in his
package.

On Feb 8, 2008 12:58 PM, Tim Gornall <tgornall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm trying to automate a process that retrieves a file via FTP from a
> vendor
> that is named using a date/time stamp.  In other words, the file name will
> dynamically change each time it is created.  Can I rename this file on
> either end somehow?  If I use GET I must know the file name to begin with.
> If I use MGET with a wild card, I can get the file, but I can't specify
> the
> destination name, so now I have a file in my IFS but I don't know the
> name.
> It appears RENAME does not support wildcards, etc.  Is anyone doing
> something similar?  Thanks, Tim
>
>
>
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