Re: FTP question

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I found something by Bob Cozzi from 2011, and now I looked at 
emails from a long time ago - like 2003, as part of instructions to 
install a fix from a vendor I worked for - here's a sample -

> quote site nam 1
> bin
> cd /qsys.lib/qgpl.lib (or library of your choice)
> put <pathname>\cdrom.savf
> quit
>
> - The above script creates the SAVF QGPL/CDROM
>    -- you don't need to precreate the SAVF, because of the .savf extension
>       in path name format

Yes - 2003. I think Giovanni Perotti has instructions like this in some 
of his CGIDEV2 documentation.

What is weird to me is, IBM recently published a knowledge-base article 
on their support site that relates only the option of pre-creating the 
SAVF object. And the current FTP manual is just plain murky around this.

Yes, it is always going to work to create the SAVF first.

BTW, I found something I sent to MIDRANGE, I think, for getting multiple 
SAVFs - mget *.savf - just set bin and nam first, right? At least as far 
back as 2006. Oy veh! Uffda!

Cheers
Vern

On 6/4/2023 5:21 PM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> So this trick has been around for at LEAST a decade , I think nearly 
> as far back as Native IP has been in IBM i. One of those 'best kept 
> secrets' apparently!!
>
>     - DrF
>
> On 6/4/2023 5:40 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> > Hello Vern,
> >
> > Am 04.06.2023 um 22:32 schrieb Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L 
> > <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Hey, Patrik, glad you can make use of it!
> >
> > Not too often, because my main machine is V4 which doesn't know that 
> > trick.
> >
> > :wq! PoC