A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...

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In this example, the FILENAME statement specifies the fileref TRANFILE, which points to the external file TPORT.DAT for transfer over the network. FTP options specify values for the record attributes: ...

For example, if you transfer a transport file from a UNIX host to an OS/390 host, you must specify file attributes through the communications software. Besides setting file attributes for those hosts ...