AFTP API Calls

AFTP API calls can be organized into the following functional categories:

• Creating or destroying an AFTP connection object
• Establishing and managing a connection to the AFTP server
• Querying the characteristics of the connection to the AFTP server
• Transferring files between the AFTP client and AFTP server programs
• Specifying file transfer characteristics
• Querying file transfer attributes
• Listing files on the AFTP server
• Listing files on the AFTP client
• Performing directory manipulation to manage directories on the client and server
• Performing file manipulation to modify files on the AFTP server
• Querying system information to acquire information about the AFTP client and AFTP server computers
• Generating message strings, which are used to get text strings for use in messages issued by your application
• Controlling tracing of AFTP activity
• Miscellaneous, providing a method of loading the AFTP initialization file