How to run "set file/attrib" from an FTP client?

[Andy Bustamante]

Is the Windows client on the same local network segment as your Alpha? Pathworks32 provides an "unsupported" NFT executable for the Windows world, allowing you to submit a batch job from the client. In your upload script, you would add a submit command to start a batch job on the VMS side. Although this is "unsupported" we continue to use this functionality.

Andy Bustamante

[Matthew Beermann]

Thanks, all, for the help. "site spawn set file/attrib..." does indeed do the trick (and it also helped me find the UNIX counterpart, "site chmod...").

For the record, the reason I needed to apply those particular attributes after the upload is that Java needs them in order to read a jar properly. http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/documentation/1.4.2/ovms/docs/user_guide.html#binary

[Sebastian Bazley]

In which case, another way is:
* zip the jar files on Windows
* copy the zip using binary mode.
* unzip them on VMS (Info-Zip)

The jars will have the correct characteristics.

[Matthew Beermann]

Thanks, all, for the help. "site spawn" it is.