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

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 15:01:57 EST 2021


On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:54:47 PM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 1/15/21 12:36 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > On 1/15/2021 1:30 PM, John Reagan wrote: 
> >> On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:15:06 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >>> 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 would have expected so. 
> > 
> > But a quick glance in the manual did not help me. 
> > 
> > Maybe a second look is warranted.
> It could only be the following, but it would have to be enabled for 
> whatever process is running on the server side and would only work if 
> the service in question is using the CRTL to open files and is not using 
> any custom filename conversions. 
> 
> 
> DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NO_VERSION 
> 
> With DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NO_VERSION enabled, OpenVMS version numbers are 
> not supported in UNIX style filenames. 
> 
> With DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NO_VERSION disabled, in UNIX style names, 
> version numbers are reported preceded by a period (.).
It is a function of the FTP server

  "TCPIP$FTP_NO_VERSION" = "1"



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