Is there any way to turn on the hash character in ftp? When monitoring a job in the Trace window, it would be nice to see that some activity is taking place, especially given the speed of the connections I am forced to deal with. It's a tad unnerving to see 24x7 Trace stop dead for 5-10 minutes...

What is the hash character and how it affects the trace? Do you mean something like rotating / ?

The trace window is a passive "object" to where various trace information is dumped

: Is there any way to turn on the hash character in ftp? When monitoring a job
: in the Trace window, it would be nice to see that some activity is taking
: place, especially given the speed of the connections I am forced to deal
: with. It's a tad unnerving to see 24x7 Trace stop dead for 5-10 minutes...

: What is the hash character and how it affects the trace? Do you mean
: something like rotating / ?

: The trace window is a passive "object" to where various trace
: information is dumped

The hash command in the ftp protocol allows for a unique character, usually the '#', to be displated to the user for each 2k block of data that is sent or received. For example:

ftp> get Ping.test
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'Ping.test' (8263 bytes).

.....Note: At this point, the transfer is taking place silently
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 8392 bytes received in 0.32Seconds 26.14Kbytes/sec.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing On ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
ftp> get Ping.test
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'Ping.test' (8263 bytes).
####

.....Note: Each 2k block received is denoted by a #-sign.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 8392 bytes received in 0.43Seconds 19.47Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

Well, the FTP download is a background process. 24x7 makes use of some Windows application interface functions that work silently and don't provide any output in a middle of discrete operations.

: The hash command in the ftp protocol allows for a unique character, usually
: the '#', to be displated to the user for each 2k block of data that is
: sent or received. For example: ftp> get Ping.test
: 200 PORT command successful.
: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'Ping.test' (8263 bytes).

: .....Note: At this point, the transfer is taking place silently
: 226 Transfer complete.
: ftp: 8392 bytes received in 0.32Seconds 26.14Kbytes/sec.
: ftp> hash
: Hash mark printing On ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
: ftp> get Ping.test
: 200 PORT command successful.
: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'Ping.test' (8263 bytes).
: ####

: .....Note: Each 2k block received is denoted by a #-sign.
: 226 Transfer complete.
: ftp: 8392 bytes received in 0.43Seconds 19.47Kbytes/sec.
: ftp>