| Title | QFT |
| Revision | July, 1991 |
| Purpose | Queued File Transport |
| Package type | UNICOS/UNIX: utilities, daemon VMS: command proceedures (scripts), queues and utilities |
| Application area | Operating System |
| Abstract | QFT is a background file transport system across TCP/IP and DECnet networks. Transfers are user to user or user to printer. Users are notified via a terminal message when a file arrives for them. No passwords are necesary since files are always "pushed" only and the received files are held in a staging area until the user runs 'qftget' to get the files. Used commonly at SDSC to transfer files across DECnet and as a handy way to give someone else a file on the Cray. This includes a VMS and a UNICOS/UNIX version. |
| Submittor | Wayne Schroeder |
| Contact | Wayne Schroeder |
| Phone | (619) 534-5065 |
| schroeder@sdsc.edu | |
| Company/ Institution | San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| CUG Site Code | SDSC |
| Distribution method | ftp |
| URL | ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu |
| Distribution restrictions | UNICOS sites only |
| Copyright | Although formerly a licensed product (developed as a joint SDSC/CRI project) it is now (since early '92) freely available. It is still copyright SDSC though, not for resale. |
| License required | no, not any more |
| License fee | n.a. |
| Hardware | Cray, VMS VAX, and/or UNIX or ULTRIX workstations |
| Operating System | UNICOS 5.1, VMS |
| Compiler(s) | pcc (now scc) |
| Program support | When time available |
| Documentation | README file, Makefile, man pages, programmer documentation |
| Portability to other UNIX systems | ULTRIX, SUN OS, VMS (workstation version not quite as robust). Other UNIX flavors should be easy. |
| Additional comments | Multinet on VMS for gateway to DECnet required |