Re: ftp_get local file question

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Alan,

Getting the output, or better yet, sniffing the TCP connection, of a
working FTP client might help me to understand what needs to be done.

But, I don't have access to a system that uses this GDG scheme, so
I can't get the output, AND even if I could, I'd have no way to test
any code that I wrote.

Plus, I'm really short on time right now.


On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, alan shore wrote:
>
> I've never had to get a G.D.G. file from a mainframe, but I have "put" a
> file as a G.D.G. from the AS/400 to the mainframe. Whan I look at the
> ftp print the name of the file WITH the generation number and the
> version number has been in there. (If my memory is correct - though they
> say thats the first thing to go - we no longer ftp to the mainframe)
> Can you not test doing a get file.name(0) and pipe the ftp output to a
> print and see if the generation number appears in the report?
>
> >>> Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 11/05/02 11:52AM >>>
>
> I don't see how I could possibly know what the name of the file is
> supposed to be on the local side of the connection.   I'm not quite clear
> on what it is that I'm doing differently than IBM is.
>
> The way FTP works is you send 'RETR <filename>' to tell the server which
> file you want to RETRieve.  It then opens up a data connection, and sends
> you the data that's in that file.   It does not send you a filename to
> use, at least not in RFC 959.
>
> Maybe you could try to figure out the correct solution, then e-mail
> me a patch, so others could benefit from it?
>

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