[bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l] CMS Filemode extention recognized ?

SYSBG@HDEDH1.BITNET (Bob de Groot) (02/12/90)

From IBM Manual GC09-1204-01 'TCP/IP for Command Ref. Man.' on p. 2-1 about
'Format Used When Naming Files' under FTP:

'In multiple-file commands (Mget, Mdelete and Mput), the CMS command
Listfile is used to locate existing files'.
I want to send files with a file-extention of 2, e.g MGET *.*.A2
Thank's for such a fast filetransfer: it transfer's all my A-disk files.
Something wrong with me or the software ?


Bob de Groot
Delft Hydraulics
Holland
SYSBG@HDEDH1

08071TCP@MSU.BITNET (Doug Nelson) (02/13/90)

>From IBM Manual GC09-1204-01 'TCP/IP for Command Ref. Man.' on p. 2-1 about
>'Format Used When Naming Files' under FTP:
>
>'In multiple-file commands (Mget, Mdelete and Mput), the CMS command
>Listfile is used to locate existing files'.
>I want to send files with a file-extention of 2, e.g MGET *.*.A2
>Thank's for such a fast filetransfer: it transfer's all my A-disk files.
>Something wrong with me or the software ?

Maybe you have an older version of the manual.  In my manual, this
discussion is on page 2-2 (Third edition, Sept. 1988, Release 1.2).
It states, earlier in the same paragraph, "the filemode is not accepted
for a foreign file".  The error message I get, under release 1.2.1, is:

  501 Invalid file identifier; use 'name.type'

I also tried it with our Spartacus TCP/IP, and it worked as expected.
It might be reasonable to ask IBM to accept an optional filemode and
just ignore the alpha character in it.

Doug Nelson
Michigan State University