Date:         Mon, 8 Jun 1998 21:33:18 GMT
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From:         a09180@MY-DEJANEWS.COM
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Subject:      HELP Using the FTP Access Method

I was trying to get a flatfile from our DEC - UNIX machine and kept on
receiving the following ERROR message from my log.
 
What am I doing
wrong?????
 
1
2
3  filename myfile ftp 'file1.ytd98' cd='/u/xxxxx'
4
user='aaaa' pass=XXXXXXXXX host='dilbert'
5  ;
6
7  data mydata/view=mydata;
8  infile myfile;
9  input @63 group $char5.
10  @105 filldt yymmdd6.
11
@111 ndccd  $char12.;
12  run;
 
NOTE: DATA STEP view saved on file
WORK.MYDATA.
NOTE: The original source statements cannot be retrieved from a
stored DATA STEP view nor will
  a stored DATA STEP view run under a
different release of the SAS system or under a
  different operating system.
 
 Please be sure to save the source statements for this DATA STEP view.
NOTE:
The DATA statement used 0.87 seconds.
 
 
13
14  proc print data=mydata
(obs=100);
15  run;
 
NOTE: 220 PPPSYS FTP server (Digital UNIX Version 5.60)
ready.
ERROR: Invalid Reply received for the RETR command..
ERROR: Failure
initializing execution environment for view WORK.MYDATA.VIEW with request 5.
NOTE: The view WORK.MYDATA.VIEW used 3.3 seconds.
 
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