Overview of API Calls

This section provides a brief description of each AFTP API call. The AFTP API calls can be organized into the following categories:

• Creating or destroying an AFTP connection object
• Establishing a connection to the AFTP server computer
• Querying connection characteristics
• Transferring files
• Specifying file transfer characteristics
• Querying file transfer characteristics
• Listing files on the AFTP server computer
• Listing files on the AFTP client computer
• Performing directory manipulation
• Performing file manipulation
• Querying system information
• Generating message strings
• Controlling trace information
• Loading the initialization file