topic Re: directory/ftp in Operating System - OpenVMS

directory/ftp

Shael Richmond — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:46:32 GMT

Does this command support any qualifiers other then /full or /anonymous? I was looking for a /since or maybe a /total.

Re: directory/ftp

Shael Richmond — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:54:14 GMT

And can I do directory/ftp dir\filename?

%TCPIP-E-FTP_DIRFAILED, directory failed for 'lwlabels\WDScan.dir'
-TCPIP-W-FTP_REPLYTEXT, 550 lwlabelsWDScan.dir: The system cannot find the file specified.

ucx 5.6 eco 4

Re: directory/ftp

RBrown_1 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:03:23 GMT

>>>>>
%TCPIP-E-FTP_DIRFAILED, directory failed for 'lwlabels\WDScan.dir'
-TCPIP-W-FTP_REPLYTEXT, 550 lwlabelsWDScan.dir: The system cannot find the file specified.
<<<<<

Try using "/" instead of "\". Put the entire string after "::" in quotation marks.

Re: directory/ftp

Shael Richmond — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:52:35 GMT

Yep that worked.

EMPPRA> dir/ftp/full s769loft01"anonymous xxxx@xxxx"::"lwlabels/WDScan.dir"

Directory S769LOFT01"anonymous password"::

08-05-10 09:50AM 237 WDScan.dir

Re: directory/ftp

Steven Schweda — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:09:58 GMT

> Does this command support any qualifiers
> other th[a]n [...]

Think for a moment about what would be needed
to make that work. Getting a simple list of
files (NLST) from an arbitrary FTP server,
and interpreting it, is one thing. Getting a
detailed directory listing (LIST) from an
arbitrary FTP server, and interpreting _that_
is a much different (and much more
complicated) thing.

Parsing FTP server LIST output is a major
project all by itself. Note, for example,
that HP's own "Secure Web Browser V1.1-12"
("based on Seamonkey 1.1.12") can't do it
right for HP's own TCPIP FTP server. I would
not hold my breath waiting for anyone to add
features like this to DIRECTORY /FTP.

Re: directory/ftp

Hoff — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:42:48 GMT

This is normally managed via a file system mount and not by the dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks ftp protocol, though VMS provides an NFS client and an SCS client and (sort of) an iSCSI initiator, but lacks clients for WebDAV, AFP, SMB, ftp, sftp or other common file servers.

So you're somewhat stuck here.

Connect over to the remote server via some form of network communications, and tally up what you require.

You might potentially use ssh here, for instance, as that can toss around commands.