6 replies to this topic

[Bill Loven]

The CLIENT.PUT retrieves a file from the client and puts it on the server.

The CLIENT.SEND takes a file from the server and sends it to the client.

HTH.

bILL

[Andy Jones]

Hi, there's two pairs of methods which can be used for transfering files:

Client.Receive -or- Client.Put - Transfers a client-side file to the server.
Client.Send -or- Client.Get - Transfers a file onto the client machine from the server.

I'd stick to one matched pair - either Receive with Send, or their synonyms/aliases Put and Get rather than mixing the two.


Historically, Receive and Send were the only two methods available in the early/beta releases of 4.7/5, but were voted counter-intuitive (back-to-front!).
Client.Receive was often thought to mean that the client would receive the file, where actually it's the server that receives it...
Because there could be existing code using them, they couldn't be altered, so the "FTP" standard synonyms Get and Put were added.
I'd suggest using Client.Get & Client.Put as they are probably more obvious in their behaviour, but each to their own!

[Rob Donovan]

Hi,

I have used these on AIX & Compaq Tru64 systems and they have worked fine so they should be fine for Linux also.

These is nothing documented to say thaty they should not be used on Linux...

Rob D.

[Ralph Gadsby]

Be aware, however, that there is no conversion done by these CLIENT methods. This means, for example, that CR LF is not converted to LF when transferring from Windows to UNIX.