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     ftmv(1C)                    FTAM 3.00                    ftmv(1C)



     NAME
          ftmv - FTAM file move program

     SYNOPSIS
          ftmv [ [ options ] src-ftam-file-spec  dst-ftam-file-spec ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Ftmv moves a file from one filestore to another.  If the
          transfer is successful, the source file is deleted.
          Otherwise, the source file is the same as before the
          transfer attempt.

          If you invoke ftmv without arguments, you are prompted for
          the source and destination file specifications.


          You may group options behind the - character provided that
          not more than one option takes the next word as an argument.

          -v1|v2|v3      Verbosity level.  Print network event
                         information.  Default is no network event
                         reporting.

          -v1            Connection level.  Report the creation and
                         termination of connections to local and
                         remote filestores as they occur.

          -v2            PDU (packet) identification level.  Identify
                         request and response PDUs as they are sent or
                         received.  Connection information is also
                         printed.

          -v3            PDU dump level.  Print a textual
                         representation of each PDU that is sent or
                         received.  A large amount of useful
                         information is printed.  Connection
                         information and packet identification are
                         also printed.

          -z num         Specify an association timeout value.  Num is
                         the maximum number of seconds to wait for a
                         network event to complete before returning an
                         error.  Making the association timeout small
                         prevents unnecessary delays when there are
                         communications problems.  If this option is
                         not specified or if num equals zero,
                         associations do not timeout.

                         Lower layers of the protocol stack may
                         timeout network events even if an FTAM
                         association timeout is not set.




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          -i             Prompt for missing filestore information.  If
                         the ftam-file-spec does not specify the
                         initiator identity and/or password for a
                         remote filestore, prompt the user for the
                         missing information.  The password is not
                         echoed.

          -w             Prompt for FTAM file passwords.  Most FTAM
                         responders do not support file passwords.
                         This option prompts for all eight FTAM file
                         passwords and is independent of the FTAM
                         operation specified.


          -f1|f2|f3|fg   Transfer the source file as a particular
                         contents type.  The source file must be on
                         the local filestore.  Revision 3.00 FTAM for
                         AViiON Systems temporarily overrides the
                         current values of the file's contents type
                         attributes and uses the specified contents
                         type with default document type parameters.

          -f1            Transfer the source file as an unstructured
                         text file (FTAM-1 file).

          -f2            Transfer the source file as a sequential text
                         file (FTAM-2 file).

          -f3            Transfer the source file as an unstructured
                         binary file (FTAM-3 file).

          -fg            Make a 'best guess' of the source file
                         contents type.  Ftmv examines the first 128
                         bytes of the source file.  If it finds non-
                         text characters, it transfers the file as an
                         FTAM-3 file; otherwise, it transfers the file
                         as an FTAM-1 file.

          CAUTION        Using the -f option can have unforeseen
                         consequences.  If a binary (FTAM-3) file is
                         transferred as a text file, the contents of
                         the destination file may not be as expected
                         since the transfer of FTAM-1 files involves
                         interpretation of carriage-returns and new-
                         lines.  Transferring a text file (FTAM-1) as
                         a binary file (FTAM-3) results in the
                         contents of the destination file being
                         exactly the same as the source file since
                         FTAM-3 files are transferred without
                         interpretation of file contents.

          -dd|dr|da      This option indicates the action to perform



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                         upon the destination file.

          -dd            Delete the destination file if it exists.  If
                         this option is not specified, an error is
                         returned if the destination file already
                         exists.

          -dr            Delete the destination file if the source
                         file is more recent than the destination
                         file. If the destination file does not exist,
                         it is created.

          -da            Append the source file to the destination
                         file. If the destination file does not exist,
                         an error is returned and the move operation
                         is not performed.

          -p create-file-password
                         Specify the create-file-password for the
                         destination filestore. The create file
                         password may be required by some FTAM
                         responders before they allow creation of
                         files in their filestore.


          An ftam-file-spec may refer to either a file on the local
          file system or to a file on a virtual filestore.  You
          specify a file using the following syntax:

                                 local-filename
                                       or
               filestore#filename[#initiator-identity[#password]]


          where braces, [ ], indicate optional fields.

          The FTAM for AViiON Systems user interface delimits fields
          in an ftam-file-spec with the pound character (#).  If you
          want the pound character to be a part of a field value (a
          filename that contains a pound character for example),
          precede the pound character with a backslash (\).  To
          include the backslash character itself in a field value, use
          two backslashes (\\).  Take into account that the pound and
          backslash characters are also significant under most DG/UX
          shells.

          Filestore is the name of an FTAM service provider whose
          presentation service access point (PSAP) is maintained by
          the OSI/P for AViiON Systems software.  The initiator-
          identity and password are used to control access to the
          virtual filestore.  Each FTAM responder treats filename in
          an operating system specific way.  The Filename section of



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     ftmv(1C)                    FTAM 3.00                    ftmv(1C)



          the ftam man page describes the FTAM for AViiON Systems
          specific interpretation.

          You may store initiator identities and passwords for
          frequently used filestores in the filestore database file,
          .ftamdb, located in your home directory.  If you include a
          filestore in an FTAM file specification and you do not give
          an initiator identity and password on the command line, the
          initiator resolves them by searching .ftamdb.  Use the
          utility ftfs(1C) to update this file.  If the filestore does
          not exist in .ftamdb, initiator-identity and password are
          set to NULL.

          When you use prompt mode, the initiator does not search
          .ftamdb.  To indicate NULL for a field value, press just
          NEWLINE at the prompt.  You are not prompted for initiator
          identity and password if you enter just NEWLINE at the
          filestore prompt since a NULL filestore means local
          filestore.  Initiator identity and password are not used for
          local requests.


     EXAMPLES
          % ftmv srcfs#/usr/dgf/foo#frogger#flies foo-new

          Move the file /usr/dgf/foo from filestore srcfs to foo-new
          on the local filestore in the current working directory.
          The initiator identity frogger and password flies for
          filestore srcfs are taken from the command line.


          % ftmv srcfs#/usr/dgf/foo#honey#bee dstfs#/foo-mv


          Move the file /usr/dgf/foo from filestore srcfs to foo-mv on
          filestore dstfs. The initiator identity honey and password
          bee for srcfs are specified on the command line.  The
          initiator identity and password for dstfs are obtained from
          $HOME/.ftamdb.





     FILES
          $HOME/.ftamdb


          FTAM attribute files

          Note that Revision 3.00 FTAM for AViiON Systems stores FTAM
          attribute information for a file in either system space



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          (where supported by the revision of DG/UX(TM) on the system)
          or in a separate file located in the same directory as the
          FTAM file.  The attribute file has a name of the form
          .ftam.filename where filename is the name of the file
          associated with the attributes.


     SEE ALSO
          ftam(1C), ftcp(1C), ftls(1C), ftfs(1C), ftrm(1C),
          ftcattr(1C), ftrattr(1C).
          "Using FTAM for AViiON(R) Systems".


     BUGS
          The FTAM for AViiON Systems executables use the '#'
          character as a delimiter in the source and destination file
          specifications. Some command processors use this character
          as the delete character. This can cause the FTAM for AViiON
          Systems executables to receive incorrect command lines from
          the command interpreter.  Use the appropriate escape
          character for your processor to ensure that the '#'
          character gets passed to the program.

































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