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From: asgeir@nic.forut.no (Asgeir Finnseth)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
Subject: FTAM client API available ?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 16:16:41 GMT
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FTAM client API available ?


Does anyone know of an available API for FTAM clients (invokers)?

The ISODE 6.0 includes a libftam library, but I find it very hard to
understand and use. I have also looked at the FTAM client application
that comes with ISODE 6.0 and tried to extract a useful API from that
code, but found that that is not straightforward. 

What I have in mind is a simple API (with limited functionality) that
will enable application programmers to utilize FTAM functionality from
their applications. I believe it should include functions like:

ftam_associate (machine, user, password)
ftam_cd (directory)
ftam_dir ()
ftam_rm (filename)
ftam_open (filename)
ftam_read (filename, buffer)
..
..
ftam_release (assoc_descriptor)

Hopefully somewhere out there something like this is available.

Thanks for any information.


Asgeir.