Error Messages

The following error messages are returned to the current list device when an error is encountered by the FTP user program. After a message is printed, the user may again be presented with the FTP prompt.

 

 

FTP User Error Messages

 

 

 

 

 

Message

 

Meaning

 

 

 

FTP internal error encountered.

 

An internal FTP error has occurred.

(FTP ERR

1)

 

 

 

 

 

Unable to connect to specified

 

A connection could not be established to the remote host,

computer.

 

 

because of one of the following problems:

(FTP ERR

2)

 

(1) the remote computer name is incorrect,

 

 

 

(2) the remote computer is not connected to the network,

 

 

 

(3) there are not enough system resources,

 

 

 

(4) FTP has not be initialized at the remote host.

 

 

 

Illegal option found. Valid

 

An FTP runstring was entered incorrectly with an invalid option.

ones are

–G, –I, –L, –N, –Q,

 

 

–T, –U, –V.

 

 

(FTP ERR

3)

 

 

 

 

 

Two nodenames in runstring;

 

An FTP runstring containing more than one host parameter was

ignoring

second one.

 

entered. FTP will use the first host parameter.

(FTP ERR

4)

 

 

 

 

 

Ambiguous command.

 

An FTP command was entered incorrectly without enough

(FTP ERR

5)

 

characters to make it a legal FTP command.

 

 

 

Invalid command.

 

An invalid FTP command was entered.

(FTP ERR

6)

 

 

 

 

 

FTP login failed.

 

FTP server did not recognize the user name or password that

(FTP ERR

7)

 

was specified.

 

 

 

Illegal reply code.

 

An illegal reply code was received from the FTP server. Legal

(FTP ERR

8)

 

reply codes begin with 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.

 

 

 

Unexpected reply code from

 

An incorrect reply code was received from the FTP server. The

server. Expected reply code

 

command sequence between FTP and FTP server can be out of

code.

 

 

sequence.

(FTP ERR

9)

 

 

 

 

 

Unable to retrieve information

 

FTP unable to obtain IP and port address information on local

on local

host.

 

node for sending the port command to FTP server.

(FTP ERR

10)

 

 

 

 

 

Not connected. Please use the

 

You are currently not connected to a remote host.

OPEN command first.

 

 

(FTP ERR

11)

 

 

 

 

 

Already connected to host.

 

You are already connected to a remote host.

Please use USER or CLOSE first.

 

 

(FTP ERR

12)

 

 

 

 

 

Not a valid type. Only ASCII

 

An invalid transfer type was specified.

and BINARY are supported.

 

 

(FTP ERR

13)

 

 

 

 

 

Unimplemented command.

 

A command, not implemented on ARPA/1000, was specified.

(FTP ERR

14)

 

 

 

 

 

Unimplemented option.

 

An option, not implemented on ARPA/1000, was specified.

(FTP ERR

15)

 

 

 

 

 

No transfer file specified.

 

No file name was specified with the -T option in the FTP

Ignoring

option –T.

 

runstring.

(FTP ERR

16)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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