CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 VAX FTAM User Facilities 1.2 New Features of the VAX FTAM Software 1.2.1 Appending Facility 1.2.2 DAP-FTAM Gateway 1.2.3 Responder Reuse 1.2.4 Journaling 1.2.5 NBS-9 Support 1.3 A Sample Session Using the VAX FTAM Facilities 1.4 A Summary of VAX FTAM DCL Command Qualifiers 2 FTAM File Specifications 2.1 Components of VAX FTAM File Specifications 2.2 File-Specification Formats 2.3 Using Wildcards with Files 3 The Copying and Appending Facilities 3.1 COPY and APPEND Command Format 3.1.1 Concatenating Files 3.1.2 Copying FTAM-2 Document Types 3.2 Recovery from Data Transfer Errors 3.3 Qualifiers Supported by the COPY and APPEND Commands 4 The Deletion Facility 4.1 DELETE Command Format 4.2 Qualifiers Supported by the FTAM Deletion Facility 5 The Directory Facility 5.1 DIRECTORY Command Format 5.2 NBS-9 Support 5.3 Qualifiers Supported by the FTAM Directory Facility 6 The Renaming Facility 6.1 RENAME Command Format 6.2 Qualifiers Supported by the FTAM Renaming Facility 7 The DAP-FTAM Gateway Services 7.1 Function of the DAP-FTAM Gateway 7.2 Using the DAP-FTAM Gateway 7.2.1 Supported Qualifiers for VMS Systems 7.2.2 Supported Document Types 7.2.3 Quoting File Names 7.2.4 DAP-FTAM Gateway Messages A Mapping of FTAM to RMS File Attributes EXAMPLES 1-1 A Sample Session Showing VAX FTAM DCL Commands FIGURES 1-1 Relationship of Initiator and Responder 1-2 Relationship of Receiver and Sender During File Transfer 7-1 Accessing a Remote FTAM System Through the DAP-FTAM Gateway TABLES 3-1 COPY and APPEND Qualifiers Supported by VAX FTAM A-1 Relationship of RMS Files and FTAM Document Types A-2 Relationship of Fully Supported FTAM and RMS File Attributes A-3 Mapping Between FTAM and RMS File Attributes