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FTP Default Name Space

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FTP default name space is "almost always" MPE name space when specifying files to be transferred with FTP commands (PUT or GET as examples). The only exception to this is the FTP MKDIR and RMDIR commands which only operate with POSIX directories; thus, if you did not specify the (./) POSIX prefix, FTP/iX specifies it for you.

For example, assume the POSIX current working directory "cwd" is: /SYS/WORK

FTP commandResult of FTP command
dir /SYS/PUB/CATALOG Display existing file (MPE space)
put put put testdata testdata ./testdata testdata /SYS/WORK/testdata /SYS/WORK/TESTDATA (MPE space) /SYS/WORK/testdata (posix space) /SYS/WORK/testdata (posix space)
put put testdata longfilename testdata ./longfilename {failed - invalid MPE space name} /SYS/WORK/longfilename (posix)
putput testdata name_name testdata ./name_name {failed - invalid MPE space name} /SYS/WORK/name_name (posix space)



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