Re: LOCSITE command for FTPAPI?

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Pre-create the file.  If it's supposed to have an 80-byte record, type:

   CRTPF FILE(mylib/myfile) RCDLEN(80)

The problem you're encountering is due to the fact that FTPAPI needs a 
file to store it's results in.  It looks, and there isn't any file with 
that name in the library.  It needs to create a file.

There's nothing sent from the remote computer that tells it what the 
record length should be.  How does it know what to make the record length? 
IT doesn't.  So it has to pick a number without any information to go by. 
And the number it picks is 1024 (always).

How can you tell it what the record length SHOULD be?  Create the file 
ahead of time.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com


On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Lapeyre, Francis wrote:

> I need to send a LOCSITE command - but I don't see what procedure within
> FTPAPIR4 I should use. What I need to send, according to the folks at the
> other site,  is:
>
> locsite trim 0
>
> The file is supposed to be an 80-byte file, but because TRIM1 is the
> default, when I transfer it, it comes over as a 1024 byte file (only the
> first 80 bytes have data and the rest of the record is padded with blanks).
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here - but I'm new at this kind of
> stuff.
>
> Is this possible?
>
>
> Francis Lapeyre
> IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
> Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
> E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx <mailto:flapeyre@xxxxxxxx>
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