VMS Help DECnet-Plus, FTAM, File-specification  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The FTAM DCL commands accept any of the following file specifica-
    tion formats:

       rms-file-designation
       appl-address::rms-file-designation
       appl-address::"non-rms-file-designation"
       appl-address"initiator-id password account"::rms-file-designation
       appl-address"initiator-id password account"::"non-rms-file-
          designation"

    The following table describes the variables in these format state-
    ments:

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    Variable      Explanation
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    appl-address  An FTAM application address that corresponds to the
                  FTAM responder of an FTAM system. An FTAM responder
                  handles incoming requests for files from FTAM users.

    initiator-id  A character string that identifies an initiator
                  ID on the specified FTAM node. If you specify this
                  string in a local file specification, FTAM uses
                  the initiator ID as the user name of an OpenVMS
                  account.

    password      A string that identifies an FTAM filestore password.
                  If you specifiy this string in a local file specifi-
                  cation, FTAM uses the filestore password as the
                  login password for the OpenVMS account identified by
                  the initiator ID.

    account       A string that identifies an FTAM account name. If
                  you specify this string in a local file specifi-
                  cation, FTAM uses it as an OpenVMS account name. To
                  specify an account, you must also specify both a
                  user name and a password.

    rms-file-     A standard Record Management Services (RMS) file
    designation   specification, which contains one or more components
                  in the following format:

                  (device-name:[directory-name]file-name.file-
                  extension;version-number).

                  Except for the file name or file name delimiter
                  (.), all the components are optional.

                  For local files, the FTAM copying facility per-
                  mits standard DCL wildcards. See the "Wildcards"
                  subtopic for more information about DCL wildcards.

    non-rms-      A file designation whose format RMS cannot inter-
    file-         pret. A non-rms file designation contains whatever
    designation   information the remote FTAM system requires for
                  locating a remote file. Enclosing non-RMS file des-
                  ignations between double quotation marks ("non-rms-
                  file-designation") causes RMS to accept the enclosed
                  designation without trying to parse it. Failing
                  to enclose non-rms file designations within double
                  quotation marks causes an error.

                  Note that FTAM cannot handle a remote file des-
                  ignation that contains one or more double quotation
                  marks among its characters.
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    File designations equate to FTAM file names. An FTAM file name
    is a text string that identifies a file to an FTAM system. The
    FTAM system requesting a file (the initiator) supplies an FTAM
    file name to the FTAM system accepting the file request (the
    responder).

    FTAM treats FTAM file names as follows:

    o  When you request a remote file, the FTAM initiator separates
       the FTAM application address from the file designation.  The
       application address translates into the address of an FTAM
       application on a particular FTAM system. The file designation,
       which includes everything to the right of the double colons
       (::) excluding double quotation marks that enclose an FTAM
       file designation, serves unchanged as an FTAM file name.

    o  When processing an incoming file request, the FTAM responder
       treats whatever string it receives for the FTAM file name
       as an RMS file designation.