Re: SEND COMMANDS VIA FTP ?

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From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:07:10 +1000

"!" toggled back and forth between the Local O/S and ftp so you could
execute commands Locally
or FTP Commands on the Remote.

AFAIK you could not upload a batch file containing the command ( DEL
*.* ) and then execute it on the remote, and I certainly hope you can't
do that today. 

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
    Melbourne Australia
"Mosalie Rignon" <Mosalie.Rignon@bidon.net> wrote in message
news:41665d41$0$16563$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
> Hi,
> Maybe I am mistaken, but I think I used to be able to send "DOS"
commands
> during an FTP session to a server by preceding the command with an
> exclamation mark.
> Example :
> !rename Thisfile Thatfile
>
>
> I am transferring data files from a mainframe to  a Win 2003 server
using a
> script on the mainframe side and I want the Win server to launch an
> application once the last file has safely landed.
> Is that possible nowadays ?
> Using something like
> !startappli.bat
>
> TIA
>
> Mosalie
>
>
>
>

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