Re: [IUG] FTS Printing - Come back little file! Come back!

["Landis, Nathan" <landisng at longwood dot edu>]

James,

When I follow the same process to output a file, my file ends up on our III server in the

/iiidb/marc/listexp

directory with an ".out" extension.

- Nathan Landis



Nathan Landis
Library Information Systems Specialist
Greenwood Library ~ Longwood University
Redford and Race Street, Farmville, Virginia 23909
Tel:  434.395.2438  fax:  434.395.2453


James A Fitch wrote:

> March 10, 2008

>

> Folks,

>

> I am trying to print to an FTS file, but seem to get stuck somewhere. This

> is what I do:

>

> Within the INNOPAC telnet client....

>

> 1) I create a list of order records for a specific time period

>

> 2) I then select "U" for Output User Selected Format

>

> 3) I Create a New File For Output

>

> 4) I then get to a screen for Record Format. I save it as a comma

> delimited file

>

> 5) I select Create a New File for Output

>

> 6) I give it a file name: for example feb_invoice_2008

>

> 7) I then get this wonderful message that tells me "File creation

> completed!" (There is an exclamation point so it must be a good thing).

>

> 8) I am given a choice to output the file and I choose "y" for yes.

>

> 9) I then have a choice of two hosts: my organization's ftp server or the

> Innovative upgrade ftp site. I choose my organization's server since I

> have ftp access to my organization's server and this is the very server

> where our patron data is delivered every night. I assume my file is going

> to land somewhere on this server.

>

> 10) I get "Trying, please wait...." and then the connection times out.

>

> We use Millennium, but for the type of Acquisitions reports I want INNOPAC

> is more effective. I even use Millennium Data Exchange to poke around on

> our FTP server, but the file is not there.

>

> So....

>

> Where the heck does my file go and how do I get to it? Do I need to set

> something else up?




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