Using FT

Or, instead of suppressing output, capturing output. For example, if you are programmatically doing a file transfer, is there a way to capturing output to determine the success/failure of the transfer?

Dave,

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried the 'CAPTURING XX' extension the the EXECUTE verb, but the transfer of a 'larger' files fails. Without capturing, the same file is transferred without incident.

Tom Cordes

Hi All -

You cannot use CAPTURING with any of the file transfer programs. The file transfer programs all use PRINT to send data from the host to the PC, and CAPTURING redirects any PRINTed data into the capture variable, instead of sending it to the "terminal".

Retrieving the status of a transfer is somewhat problematic. There is an escape sequence (ESC STX "S") that returns the status of the "raw" transfer, but it does not indicate the status of any pre- or post- file conversion operation, such as converting to an Excel worksheet.

Thanks,

Pete

Hi Nancy -

EQU ESC TO CHAR(27), STX TO CHAR(2) PRINT ESC:STX:"S": INPUT STATUS

Thanks,

Pete

Hi Nancy -

The ESC:STX:'S' command returns the status of the last file transfer processed by AccuTerm's built-in file transfer functions, not an external ftp command.

Thanks,

Pete

Hi Nancy -

The Windows command processor does not handle redirection properly. Try explicitly launching the command processor using CMD.EXE with the '/C' option:

cmd = "CMD.EXE /C FTP -s:\\OURSERVER\Flatfile\FTP.EXPORT\ftpscript1.txt > ftp.log" PRINT ESC:STX:'>':CMD:CR:

Thanks,

Pete