Chapter 6 MPE/iX File System and Data Transfers

Table of Contents

How FTP Transfers Files

ASCII Transfers

Binary (IMAGE) Transfers

Bytestream (Byte—Local-byte 8) Transfers

MPE/iX Type vs. FTP Transfer Type

Using BUILD Parameters with FTP

Build Command Parameters

Examples Using BUILD Parameters

MPE/iX File System

Fixed Record File Padding

Record Truncation

End-of-File Limitation

File Transfer Examples

Variable Record Files

Mixed Mode Transfer

Fixed Record Files

This chapter describes MPE/iX file system characteristics that affect how files are transferred and saved using FTP. This chapter can be useful to both MPE/iX FTP users and remote users accessing the MPE/iX FTP server and is organized as follows: