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More Information About FTP and MPE/iX
This section describes in more detail MPE/iX logon syntax and file system
behavior when using FTP.
MPE/iX User Accounts
MPE/iX user logon accounts are in the form:
ftp> USER sessname,username.acctname,groupname
The sessionname parameter (sessname) is optional. Passwords may be
required for all three parts of the user account:
userpass,accountpass,grouppass
You can enter the user logon account and passwords together as follows:
Table 5-6.
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| | ftp> USER |
| | session1,username/userpass.acctname/acctpass,groupname/grouppass |
| | |
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Press the return key when prompted for passwords.
The following example shows: no session, and a password for the account
only:
Table 5-7.
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| ftp> USER myname.myacct/acctpass |
| |
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| |
| 331 Password required for MYNAME.MYACCT/ACCTPASS |
| [userpass][,acctpass][,grouppass] |
| |
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| | |
| Password: | (press return) |
| | |
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| 230 USER LOGGED ON |
| |
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| ftp> pwd |
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| 257 "/MYACCT/PUB" is the current directory. |
| |
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| 257 ",MYNAME,MYACCT,PUB" is the current session |
| |
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NOTE Each password can only be entered once. For example, if you enter
the account password as part of the USER string, you cannot
re-enter it at the password prompt.
If you enter passwords as part of the logon string, they are
displayed in the message text of the password prompt.
Groups.
An MPE/iX user account can contain many groups, each containing files. A
group is comparable to a directory, but only to one level. Unlike UNIX
systems, the MPE/iX file system is not hierarchical.
The MPE/iX account manager can assign a default group for a user account.
For example, the user account MYNAME.ARPACCT is assigned a default group
PUB (with no group password). The user logon is as follows:
Table 5-8.
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| ftp> USER MYNAME/userpw.ARPACCT/acctpw |
| |
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| 331 Password required for MYNAME/USERPW.ARPACCT/ACCTPW |
| [userpass][,acctpass][,grouppass] |
| |
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| | |
| Password: | (press return) |
| | |
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| 230 USER LOGGED ON |
| |
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| ftp> pwd |
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| 257 "/ARPACCT/PUB" is the current directory. |
| |
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| 257 ",MYNAME,ARPACCT,PUB" is the current session |
| |
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Changing Groups.
The FTP CD command is supported on the MPE/iX FTP server as of release
4.5. To change groups you CD as follows:
ftp> pwd
257 "/MYACCT/GROUP1" is the current directory.
257 ",MYNAME.MYACCT,GROUP1" is the current session.
ftp> cd ../GROUP2
250 CWD file action successful.
ftp> pwd
257 "/MYACCT/GROUP2" is the current directory.
257 ",MYNAME.MYACCT,GROUP1" is the current session.
Notice that only the current directory changed and not the current
session.
File Naming on MPE/iX
The MPE/iX file system is not case sensitive: file1 is the same file as
FILE1.
A fully-qualified MPE/iX filename is in the form:
filename.groupname.account
Each part, (filename, groupname, and account) is 1-8 alphanumeric
characters, beginning with an alphabetic character. To avoid file naming
problems, always explicitly specify resulting filenames in correct MPE/iX
format.
Using Metacharacters
Be aware if you use metacharacters (wildcards) and specify a group and/or
account with MGET, the resulting filenames will be fully qualified MPE/iX
file names (filename.groupname.account), a maximum of 26 characters,
including periods. If your system supports fewer characters than MPE/iX,
the filenames may be truncated. Use the LS command to verify the set of
files you are transferring.
Both * and @ can be used as wildcard characters with the LS and DIR
commands.
Changing File Building Parameters
When transferring files from your system to MPE/iX, you can use
file-building parameters following the PUT command string:
ftp> PUT remotefile localfile;buildparms
The supported build parameters are:
Table 5-9.
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| :REC=[-rcsizebytes][,blkfactor[,[{F}][,{BINARY}]]]] |
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| | {V} | {ASCII} |
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----------------------------------------------------------------
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| | {B} | |
| | | |
----------------------------------------------------------------
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| [;DEV=device] [;CODE=filecode] |
| [;DISC=[numrec][,[numextents][,[initialloc]]] |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------
The parameter REC= can also be specified in words (two bytes per word)
using a positive integer value. The default blkfactor size is one. For
more information about the BUILD command, see the MPE/iX Commands
Reference Manual.
The default MPE/iX file-transfer specifications for the PUT command in
the form of file-building parameters are:
ASCII: ;REC=-80,,F,ASCII;DISC=204800
Binary: ;REC=-256,,F,BINARY;DISC=204800
BYTESTREAM: ;REC=,,B;DISC=16384000
Examples.
The following example shows how to transfer a file to MPE/iX with a
record size of 150 bytes:
ftp> PUT filex file2;REC=-150,,V,ASCII
In the following example, using only CODE=PROG defaults to a file of
fixed binary, with records of 128 words (which are the BUILD command REC=
defaults).
ftp> PUT filex file2;CODE=PROG