File and directory entries in i5/OS format

System i™ clients support listing the files on a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server in both the i5/OS^® format and the format specific to UNIX. This topic discusses the i5/OS format.

Here is the original i5/OS style format for the LIST subcommand (when LISTFMT=0):

owner size date time type name

A blank space separates each field.

This is a description of each field:

owner

The 10-character string that represents the user profile which owns the subject. This string is left-aligned, and includes blanks. This field is blank for anonymous FTP sessions.

size

The 10-character number that represents the size of the object. This number is right-aligned, and includes blanks. This field is blank when an object has no size associated with it.

date

The 8-character modification date in the format that is defined for the server job. It uses date separators that are defined for the server job. This modification date is left-aligned, and it includes blanks.

time

The 8-character modification time that uses the time separator, which the server job defines.

type

The 10-character i5/OS object type.

name

The variable length name of the object that follows a CRLF (carriage return, line feed pair). This name can include blanks.

Here is an example of the original i5/OS style format:

BAILEYSE     5263360 06/11/97 12:27:39 *FILE     BPTFSAVF

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