The mandatory parameters for the TRANSFER-FILE command are the entries for
direction of transfer
name of the remote system
name of the file in the local system (mandatory if FTAC is not implemented)
A file transfer can be effected using these three parameters alone, if:
the user ID for the data transfer is the same in both systems
the user ID is not password-protected
the FT user issues the command under this user ID
the file name is the same in both systems
the send and receive files are not password-protected
An example can be found in section Examples of the TRANSFER-FILE command.
This short command works because openFT assigns default values to all the values which are not specified. A detailed explanation of the abbreviations, order and default values of the operands can be found in section Full form of the TRANSFER-FILE command.