I purchased Coreftp Pro last week so I am a registered user but I wanted to try here first in case I am doing something stupid..
When connecting to an Open VMS server long filenames (9 chars or longer) are not displayed. I can telnet to the server and see the files are present.
Is there a setting I am missing somewhere?
Thanks
D. Yeatman
Long Filenames on a VMS Server
Also note that CoreFTP offers two flavors of OpenVMS server.
Choosing the "right" OpenVMS server option in CoreFTP might be important as well. While I haven't confirmed this, I personally suspect that the two flavors are less related to version of OpenVMS but rather more related to the TCPIP stack running on OpenVMS. There are three popular stacks and at least two other stacks.
UCX v4.x and earlier is the early HP (Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp) offerring that didn't behave much like a Unix stack.
TCPIP Services for OpenVMS v5.x and higher the HP offering that completely rewrote the stack to behave like a Unix Stack.
Multinet is the Process Software offering.
TGV was Two Guys and a VAX offering that was absorbed and retired by Process Software.
There was another stack whose name escapes me just now that was similarly absorbed by Process Software.
I'm guessing that CoreFTP doesn't have much OpenVMS exposure, and thus the two available options are likely debugged for two of the three most popular of UCX, TCPIP Services and/or Multinet.
Also by "long file names" are you simply talking standard ODS-3 filenames up to 39 characters for the file and 39 characters for the extention, or are you talking ODS-5 support with mixed case, spaces and special characters thrown in?
Anyway, when talking OpenVMS, the OpenVMS version, and the stack version will help. For the HP offerrings: $ TCPIP SHOW VERSION. For Multinet I think it is $ MULTI/SHOW VERSION.
Todd Maurer
OpenVMS Support Engineer, HP
UCX v4.x and earlier is the early HP (Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp) offerring that didn't behave much like a Unix stack.
TCPIP Services for OpenVMS v5.x and higher the HP offering that completely rewrote the stack to behave like a Unix Stack.
Multinet is the Process Software offering.
TGV was Two Guys and a VAX offering that was absorbed and retired by Process Software.
There was another stack whose name escapes me just now that was similarly absorbed by Process Software.
I'm guessing that CoreFTP doesn't have much OpenVMS exposure, and thus the two available options are likely debugged for two of the three most popular of UCX, TCPIP Services and/or Multinet.
Also by "long file names" are you simply talking standard ODS-3 filenames up to 39 characters for the file and 39 characters for the extention, or are you talking ODS-5 support with mixed case, spaces and special characters thrown in?
Anyway, when talking OpenVMS, the OpenVMS version, and the stack version will help. For the HP offerrings: $ TCPIP SHOW VERSION. For Multinet I think it is $ MULTI/SHOW VERSION.
Todd Maurer
OpenVMS Support Engineer, HP