Yeah, they solve very different problems.

FTP is cross-system: it supports to and from nearly every current OS in the 
world. IND$FILE is very convenient in some situations, but it is strictly 3270 
client to/from IBM mainframes.

Charles

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:29:17 -0400, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:

>Feh. IND$FILE is single-threaded and requires a terminal session. And can you 
>do the equivalent of mget or mput?
>
>For all its warts, ftp for the right use case is the best answer.

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