FTP: BEWARE

[Willem Grooters]

It may be a matter of TCPIP-version, but still something to be aware of:

Node 1: VMS 6.5, UCX 4.2, file x.x;2
Node 2: VMS 7.2-1, TCPIP 5.0, file x.x;7

In Node 2:
$ FTP Node 1
FTP> binary
FTP> get x.x
FTP> bye

$ DIR x.x

x.x;2 (today)
x.x;7 (older date)

so beware:
FTP will copy files as-is, INCLUDING VERSION

Willem

[Uwe Zessin]

I can reproduce this with TCP/IP services V5.3 pulling from UCX V4.1 ECO 8, but not the other way. The destination disk for TCP/IP V5.3 is ODS-5, by the way.

[labadie_1]

I read
Node 1: VMS 6.5

to the best of my knowledge, I have never seen such a Vms version :-)

[labadie_1]

depending on what you want to achieve, you can use various soft based on IP transport
Ftso (from Hp)
Xcom IP (from Computer Associates)
Fastcopy (http://www.softlink.com/fastcopy_techie.html)
CFT (cross file transfer)

This is especially useful when you have various OS that talk together (Ibm Mvs, Ibm OS 400, Ibm OS2, WNT, Vms, various Unixes...)

[Antoniov.]

Hi Willem,
I think you will say V6.2 not V6.5; now I tryed form V6.2 (UCX 4.2) to V7.2-1 (TCPIP V5.0) and it happens the same (ftp keep version).
You can solve using follow comand:
FTP>binary
FTP>get x.x *.*;
FTP>bye
In get command you can add the local file name and you can use wildchar so you can define only new version (suign *.*; as in my example).

H.T.H.
@Antoniov

[Willem Grooters]

To all:
Thanks for the replies, but this was meant to be just a notification for the innocent. So only little points to gain this time...

Willem

[Antoniov.]

Hello Willem,
what does mean you lats Post? I feed Systran but response is to clear.
My post doesn't work for you?

@Antoniov

[Willem Grooters]

Antonio,

I did read your remark and indeed, it works - but I knew that already by hard experience: purged after I deleted the original so lost it, beacuse of this behaviour (not this time). So I didn't need a solution, but put the message merely for the benefit of 'the innocent'. "BEWARE" would (hopefully) ring a bell to look inside ;-)

Willem

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello,

and just to make sure, if you do this with current versions of TCP/IP (5.3 tested) it does work as expeceted, i.e. the newly created file has the highest version number.

All the best,

Martin