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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, September 1, 2003 7:16:42 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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# If the file name - is specified, the stdin (for reading)or stdout (for writing) is used.
# If the first character of the file name is |, theremainder of the argument is interpreted as a shell command. Ftp then forks a shell, using popen(3) with the argument supplied, and reads (writes) from the stdout (stdin). If the shell command includes spaces, the argument must be quoted; e.g. ``
# Failing the above checks, if ``globbing'' is enabled, local file names are expanded according to the rules used in the csh(1); c.f. the glob command. If the ftpcommand expects a single local file (.e.g. put), only the first filename generated by the
-# For mget commands and get commands with unspecified local file names, the local filename is the remote file- name, which may be altered by a case, ntrans, or nmap setting. he
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+# For mget commands and get commands with unspecified local file names, the local filename is the remote file- name, which may be altered by a case, ntrans, or nmap setting. The
resulting filename may then be altered if runique is on.
# For mput commands and put commands with unspecified remote file names, the remote filename is the local filename, which may be altered by a ntrans or nmap setting. The resulting filename may then be altered by the remote server if sunique is on.
__FILE TRANSFER PARAMETERS__
The FTP specification specifies many parameters which may affect a file transfer. The type may be one of ``ascii'',``image'' (binary), ``ebcdic'', and ``local byte size'' (for
PDP -10's and PDP -20's mostly). Ftp supports the ascii and image types of file transfer, plus local byte size 8 for tenex mode transfers.
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Ftp supports only the default values for the remaining file transfer parameters: mode, form, and struct.
+Ftp supports only the default values for the remaining file transfer parameters: mode, form, and struct.
__ENVIRONMENT__
Ftp utilizes the following environment variables.
