[Info-vax] basic FTP client for OpenVMS from Windows.
Ben Lambert
drbenlambert at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 05:54:44 EST 2021
On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 20:01:59 UTC, xyzz wrote:
> 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"
There's also built-in functionality in FileZilla to remove VMS version numbers when transferring to Windows, but for some reason the option is not available in the GUI.
You have to edit filezilla.xml file and set "StripVMSRevisions" to 1
HTH
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