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

[John Reagan]

On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:15:06 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/14/2021 10:08 AM, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote: 
> > 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?
> You already got some answers. But here is my take. 
> 
> First if GUI is desired then FileZilla is pretty good. Note though that 
> I have had problems VMS->Windows where it keeps version numbers. 
> 

There are logicals on the VMS side to control if version numbers are considered part of the filename or not.

I use FZ to download containers from my VMS development cluster down to my W10 PC running Virtual Box that is running OpenVMS x86.