Host Section


The host section of the parsing table assigns a Host ID, username and password to a host name or IP address. The Host ID is used for multithreading and ftp data transfers. Each line is comprised of three to five fields. The first field of a host definition line must be the word "HOST". The second field must be the word "host". The third field is the perl regular expression host name or IP address. The fourth field is the Host ID. The fifth and sixth fields are optional. They contain the username and password for any ftp sessions that will be used to transfer data from the remote host. These fields are used by the FTPGET quecmd.

The following line assigns the computer 140.90.193.90 to HOST ID 0066.

HOST host 140\.90\.193\.90 0066 anonymous my_email_address

NOTE: The backslash before the periods is necessary because that field is a perl regular expression.
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