Hi,

I am trying to connect to a distributors FTP server (which returns the prompt at the bottom of this post). Each week these people post our sales data using the same file names. When you do an ls you can see them all there for months on end. When I use my windows or linux ftp clients I can only download the latest file. Is this the expected behaviour or am I going nuts !! They have told me "all the files are there, download them" , well yeah but how do I access the older files ?

ANY help would be appreciated !

Regards,

Ingmar
Griffith, NSW Australia

220 <<<Connect:Enterprise UNIX 2.2.00 Secure FTP>>> at mboxfox FTP server ready. Time = 13:54:01

How does this involve HP-UX? "I can only download the latest file"... no one can do anything with a report like that. What command are you using to download the file? What results do you get?

G'day,

The box is a HP/UX box, therefore I'm posting in the HP/UX area and this seemed to be a weird HP/UX ftp issue.

"I can only download the latest file" is the exact symptom I have, having explained that I can see all of the previous versions of the file "for months and months on end".

I use get or mget * and it sends the latest version of the file(s) I can see after doing a ls, but apparently it's possible to retrieve the older files which only differ in their date stamps from the ones I receive.

Clear as mud !

Can you post an `ls` listing of the files you'd like to get?
From what you've mentioned, it is weird, but there has to be a reason for the drama.

Perhaps all the files are there but you only have have permissions to download the latest one?

Actual file versions are a VAX thing I think you must mean something like:
Instead of mget, try using an explicit filename for an "older" version and see what return code you get.

If it is a VAX server then you may have problem if ftp decides "to unix" the filename - ie, drop the semi-colon part. Which would explain your results.

Here is an ls from the system. Note the identical files names repeat just with different dates.

Many thanks for the replies so far.

Ingmar

ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (203,47,212,78,231,199)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for .
-ART------TCP A mailbox 1249 2943 Nov 13 18:46 AD174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 46189 266012 Nov 13 19:20 AC174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 32643 615 Nov 13 19:21 AP174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 50530 988 Nov 13 19:21 AG174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 62588 387 Nov 13 19:21 AB174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 73762 1734 Nov 13 19:21 AY174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 30502 2756 Nov 13 19:38 AW174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 14551 266556 Nov 20 19:30 AC174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 64622 615 Nov 20 19:31 AP174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 30784 990 Nov 20 19:31 AG174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 25710 386 Nov 20 19:31 AB174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 63104 1733 Nov 20 19:31 AY174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 13841 1224 Nov 20 19:42 AW174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 16920 893 Nov 20 19:57 AD174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 70548 266849 Nov 27 18:55 AC174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 50431 616 Nov 27 18:55 AP174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 69104 989 Nov 27 18:55 AG174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 64914 386 Nov 27 18:55 AB174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 55458 1734 Nov 27 18:55 AY174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 66336 1571 Nov 27 19:15 AW174481.zip
-ART------TCP A mailbox 33629 1101 Nov 27 19:34 AD174481.zip
Total number of batches listed: 21
226 Transfer complete.
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