Using sftp from OpenVMS to Windows - How to avoid version numbers ?

Hi all,

I use OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha with TCPIP V5.4 ECO 6.
I use sftp to copy files (my current directory contains: 1.tmp;1 ,
2.tmp;1 , 3.tmp;1 ).
when I copy a single file, say:
put 1.tmp
It gets the name 1.tmp in the Windows machine.
But where I copy all the above files, like this:
put *.* (or even mput *.*)
It get the names 1.tmp;1 2.tmp;1 3.tmp;1 under Windows, that is: the
version number gets to be
part of the file name...
Is there a way to copy all 3 files without the version number ?
(I mean: without looping and sending them one by one...)
The ssh installation in the Windows machine is Bitvise's WinSSHD 4.26

Thans,
Ami.

[email]ami.kurtser@gmail.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I use OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha with TCPIP V5.4 ECO 6.
> I use sftp to copy files (my current directory contains: 1.tmp;1 ,
> 2.tmp;1 , 3.tmp;1 ).
> when I copy a single file, say:
> put 1.tmp
> It gets the name 1.tmp in the Windows machine.
> But where I copy all the above files, like this:
> put *.* (or even mput *.*)
> It get the names 1.tmp;1 2.tmp;1 3.tmp;1 under Windows, that is: the
> version number gets to be
> part of the file name...
> Is there a way to copy all 3 files without the version number ?
> (I mean: without looping and sending them one by one...)
> The ssh installation in the Windows machine is Bitvise's WinSSHD 4.26
>
> Thans,
> Ami.[/color]

If you can zip up the files on the VMS side, copy the zip file over then
unzip it you shouldn't get version numbers.

Jeff Coffield

[email]ami.kurtser@gmail.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I use OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha with TCPIP V5.4 ECO 6.
> I use sftp to copy files (my current directory contains: 1.tmp;1 ,
> 2.tmp;1 , 3.tmp;1 ).
> when I copy a single file, say:
> put 1.tmp
> It gets the name 1.tmp in the Windows machine.
> But where I copy all the above files, like this:
> put *.* (or even mput *.*)
> It get the names 1.tmp;1 2.tmp;1 3.tmp;1 under Windows, that is: the
> version number gets to be
> part of the file name...
> Is there a way to copy all 3 files without the version number ?
> (I mean: without looping and sending them one by one...)
> The ssh installation in the Windows machine is Bitvise's WinSSHD 4.26
>
> Thans,
> Ami.[/color]

You can rename the files before sending them. I've never used SFTP
(private network - no need) but with regular ftp you can specify the
file name on the local node and the file name on the remote not.

$ FTP MUMBLE.COM
ascii
put stuff.dat;1 stuff1.dat
put stuff.dat;2 stuff2.dat
put stuff.dat;3 stuff3.dat

On May 1, 8:44*am, ami.kurt...@gmail.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I use OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha with TCPIP V5.4 ECO 6.
> I use sftp to copy files (my current directory contains: 1.tmp;1 ,
> 2.tmp;1 , 3.tmp;1 ).
> when I copy a single file, say:
> put 1.tmp
> It gets the name 1.tmp in the Windows machine.
> But where I copy all the above files, like this:
> put *.* *(or even mput *.*)
> It get the names 1.tmp;1 2.tmp;1 3.tmp;1 under Windows, that is: the
> version number gets to be
> part of the file name...
> Is there a way to copy all 3 files without the version number ?
> (I mean: without looping and sending them one by one...)
> The ssh installation in the Windows machine is Bitvise's WinSSHD 4.26
>
> Thans,
> Ami.[/color]

You need to define the following logical:

"TCPIP$FTP_NO_VERSION" = "1"

Hope this helps,

WWWebb

On May 1, 8:33 pm, WWWebb <William.W.W...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On May 1, 8:44 am, ami.kurt...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>[color=green]
> > Hi all,[/color]
>[color=green]
> > I use OpenVMS V7.3-2 on Alpha with TCPIP V5.4 ECO 6.
> > I use sftp to copy files (my current directory contains: 1.tmp;1 ,
> > 2.tmp;1 , 3.tmp;1 ).
> > when I copy a single file, say:
> > put 1.tmp
> > It gets the name 1.tmp in the Windows machine.
> > But where I copy all the above files, like this:
> > put *.* (or even mput *.*)
> > It get the names 1.tmp;1 2.tmp;1 3.tmp;1 under Windows, that is: the
> > version number gets to be
> > part of the file name...
> > Is there a way to copy all 3 files without the version number ?
> > (I mean: without looping and sending them one by one...)
> > The ssh installation in the Windows machine is Bitvise's WinSSHD 4.26[/color]
>[color=green]
> > Thans,
> > Ami.[/color]
>
> You need to define the following logical:
>
> "TCPIP$FTP_NO_VERSION" = "1"
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> WWWebb[/color]

Hi WWWebb,

Thanks for the answer, but it didn't work:
$ Define/system TCPIP$FTP_NO_VERSION 1
$ sftp mywindow
sftp> put *.*
still moves 1.tmp;1 etc.

Maybe this option applies to ftp only, but not to Sftp...
Anyway, thanks for the good will !

Ami