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    Posted: June 15 2006 at 5:07am
    Is there a way to wait for a FT transfer to finish before going on? Wait at a line until the status changes or loop until the status changes or ?
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If you EXECUTE the FT program, the program will not continue past the EXECUTE until FT finished.

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Another FT question: a workstation receives files via modem from an outside source. Some of these files are ZIP format. I want to 'save' these files on the D3 server prior to subsequent processing, for backup and troubleshooting purposes. This job runs at many clients with many different types of network setups, so I set up a pointer that I read at runtime to create q-ptr (DOS:C:\FOLDER\SUBFOLDER) - then I run FT to copy the workstation's files to the D3 server. When I invoke FT, I also use the O and 1=B parameters, but even so, it seems I cannot subsequently unzip (WinZIP) the ZIP file copied to the D3 server this way. Any suggestions? It would probably be better to invoke a straight DOS copy but I don't know how to dynamically determine the destination folder when it's on the D3 server and may or may not be mapped of have a network path. Thanks
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NT_BIN:C:/FOLDER/SUBFOLDER

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Hi Rick -

If you want to use FT to transfer binary data on a D3 system, you will need to customize the FTKERMIT subroutine to work with binary strings in BASIC. The current version of FTKERMIT works fine in binary mode on machines that support binary-clean strings using standard string operations like concatenation, substring, LEN(), CHAR() and SEQ() functions. But as far as I know, D3 does not support binary-clean string functions. Specifically, CHAR(255) is lost, so PRINT LEN(CHAR(255)) prints 0, not 1 (I just tested this on D3/NT 7.5).

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