unix FTP to IBM CMS?

[Kevin Johnson]

In article <1990Mar13.064510.4235 at arsocomvax.socom.mil> ted at arsocomvax.socom.mil (Ted Nolan) writes:
>We've recently had an IBM 9370 mainframe come on to our LAN with IBM's TCP/IP.
>Now a user wants to use FTP to transfer some files to it.  The catch is that
>the files need to end up with a particular record size on the CMS side.
>The man page for BSD ftp isn't very helpful on this point, and the only
>subcommand that sounds promising, "mode", is apparently fixed in stone as
>"stream".  Can it be done (from either end (get from CMS, put from Unix)?)

Try this on the ftp command line ( on the unix side):
	quote site fixrecfm {XXX}
Where XXX is the fixed record length you need...
This works on my setup...
I found it by doing the following:
	remotehelp site

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