RE: TESTPUT

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I put double quotes around the string and it worked! Woo-hoo!  

It's ALWAYS the little things that get me, seems like.

Thanks all!

Thanks Scott for doing all the work on this initially.  Very impressive. 


Shannon O'Donnell

 


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From: owner-ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 12:18 PM
To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TESTPUT 

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hi Shannon,

> However, when I attempt to use a variable for those paramaters, I 
> always get a "No Such File or Directory" error message.  I've tried 
> adding an apostrophe around both ends of the path.

If the pathname has spaces in it, you might need to add doublequotes around
it (but not apostrophes!)  If it doesn't have spaces in it, you don't have
to do anything special.


> I've tried appending a null to it, and of course, I trim all the 
> extraneous garbage from the variable that may have been passed along 
> with it on the call to the program.

FTPAPI is written in RPG, not C.  If you append a NULL, it'll send that NULL
to the server (or make it a part of the pathname if you specify it in
peLocal.)

It doesn't know that you meant it to terminate the string.


> I can't figure out why a hard coded path works but using a variable 
> for the path doesn't.

FTPAPI doesn't know the difference between a hard-coded pathname or a
variable. It must have something to do with the contents of the variable.


> No doubt it's something very basic I'm missing here, but I can't seem to
> figure it out.
>
> Any suggestions on things I can try?

Make sure you've got the parameters in the correct order.  The first parm 
to FTP_put() is the session number, the second is the REMOTE pathname (not 
the local one!) and the 3rd is the local pathname.

Make sure that you've already created the directory where the local file 
should be placed.  (The mkdir() API works nicely for this.)

IF that doesn't help, please post your code.
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