Using NS3000/iX Network Services (36920-90008)

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5 Network File Transfer
Network File Transfer (NFT) is the network service that copies disk
files. The files may be copied to the same computer or from one
computer in a network to another. You can use Network File Transfer to
transfer a file between any two systems in an NS 3000/iX network, even
if both of those systems are remote from your own. You can also use it
for purely local transfers on a single HP 3000.
This chapter explains how to use the interactive command DSCOPY to
interactively invoke NFT, and the use of intrinsics that enable NFT to
be invoked from within a program. The first part of this chapter
explains how to use NFT to interactively copy files. The second part,
“Programmatic NFT”, describes how to use intrinsics to invoke NFT
from within a program.
Limitations
Following are NFT limitations:
1. NFT only works with filenames in the traditional MPE namespace.
It does not work with filenames in the HFS (POSIX-compliant)
namespace. NFT does not recognize HFS directories or filenames
that contain slashes as directory delimiters. For example, it will not
work properly with filenames such as “./FILEa,” or
“/usr/include/stdio.h”.
2. NFT only works with traditional MPE record-oriented files; that is
files with fixed (F), variable (V), or undefined (U) record types. It
does not work with files that have the POSIX-compliant, bytestream
(B) or directory (H) types.