Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:22:37 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
RE: odmFTP'ing in on a manual basis to an AIX 5.1 client via James River's ICE.TCP, I have the option to change the umask. I haven't yet found how to control the umask value in an automated script session.
Does anyone know? TIA
(I have checked their documentation, poked around in their base directory for text files and scanned their support forum but found nothing.)
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