[Info-vax] basic FTP client for OpenVMS from Windows.

Hein RMS van den Heuvel heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 10:08:05 EST 2021


Hi folks, what is the current recommendation for an FTP client to be used on Windows exchanging files with OpenVMS (Itanium).

Personally I have an old WS_FTP Pro which suits me fine.
And the FTP on my Windows 10 Pro laptop works fine also.
So in my own office I am good, but not on my current customer site.

Their older Windows FTPs (here Windows Server 2016) do not work.
You can connect, but they hang transferring.
I believe this is because they do not support PASSIVE mode, not even with "quote pasv" which is accepted but has no useful effect.

I downloaded WinSCP 5.17.9  which seems fine at first as it displays my files, but when it comes to fetch a file barfs with a poorly constructed name on OpenVMS:
>>> Failed to parse specification /DISK1:[xxx.USER.yyyyyy]/NAV_19.LOG
file specification syntax error
Obviously there are one or two well intended but erroneous forward slashes in that specification.

The customer is expected to configure FileZilla for me, which will be fine.

What other options do folks like?

Is there a simple commandline FTP.EXE? 
That has my preference over GUI tools.

Just fetching that image from Windows 10 and running it does not work.
Hints to make that work?

Comments?
Thanks,
Hein.



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