Use the following rules for command syntax, quotation marks, and wildcard characters when you type FTP command lines. o Command syntax With the FTP command and most of the commands at the FTP prompt, you can use either DCL or UNIX command syntax. For example, the DCL DIRECTORY and the UNIX ls commands produce the same results o Quotation marks When you communicate with a non-OpenVMS host, you might need to enclose the following within quotation marks: o UNIX path names o UNIX file names with slashes o Lowercase or mixed-case host names, user names, passwords, file names, and command lines As shown in the following example, enclose UNIX path names with quotation marks: FTP> put MY.DOC "/usr/users/evt/my.doc" 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/users/evt/mydoc (130.180.4.8,1789). 226 Transfer complete. local: WORK1$:[VANA]MY.DOC;2 remote: /usr/users/evt/my.doc 289 bytes sent in 00:00:00.01 seconds (20.15 Kbytes/s) o Wildcards You can use wildcards in the following FTP commands: DELETE, DIRECTORY, GET, PUT, MGET, MPUT, MDELETE, and MLS. The wildcard characters recognized by FTP include the following: o The percent sign (%) to represent an individual character o The question mark (?) to represent an individual character o The asterisk (*) to represent multiple characters If any of these characters are part of a file name but are not used as a wildcard, you can disable recognition of these characters as wildcards by either enclosing the file name in quotation marks or using the DISABLE PARSE command. o Qualifiers In DCL command lines, you can place a command qualifier anywhere on the command line. It is a good practice to follow the OpenVMS recommendation of placing the qualifier after the command name.