NAME¶
zftp - CERNLIB program to transfer ZEBRA formatted files over a network
SYNOPSIS¶
zftp [
hostname]
DESCRIPTION¶
zftp is a file transfer program that supports the transfer of formatted,
unformatted and ZEBRA RZ files. (If you have no idea what ZEBRA files are, it
is highly unlikely that you want to use this program instead of a standard FTP
client.) Formatted files are typically KUIP macros, command or EXEC files,
source code or even FZ ALPHA exchange format files. Unformatted files may be
FZ binary exchange format or EPIO files or any other binary file with fixed
length records.
zftp also provides LS, CD, PWD and RSHELL commands. It provides a common
interface on all systems and the possibility of macros (via KUIP). It avoids
the problems of file format conversion that occur when transferring binary
files between VMS and UNIX systems.
zftp comes with the traditional
KUIP user interface, including a HELP function that describes the available
commands.
Please note that, like many other FTP programs,
zftp transfers
unencrypted passwords over the network. It should therefore be used only
within a trusted LAN.
SEE ALSO¶
•
zftp online HELP command
•
ftp(1)
•
zserv(8)
zftp is part of the CERNLIB CSPACK package, documented fully at
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/psdir/cspack.ps.gz (PostScript) or
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/WWW/cspack/cspmain/cspmain.html (HTML).
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).