PROMpt subcommand—Toggle interactive prompting for M* commands

Purpose

Use the PROMpt subcommand to toggle interactive prompting for MDelete, MGet, and MPut commands. Prompting is the default action unless the FTP session was started with the -i option, which turns off interactive prompting.

Format

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Parameters

There are no parameters for this subcommand.

Example

The following example shows using the MPut command with interactive prompting on. 
Command:
mput file*
Mput FILE1 (Yes|No|Quit|Stop prompting)? yes
>>>PORT 9,67,113,57,5,128
200 Port request OK.
>>>STOR FILE1
125 Storing data set /u/user31/temp/FILE1
250 Transfer completed successfully.
164 bytes transferred in 0.010 seconds.  Transfer rate 16.40 Kbytes/sec.
Mput FILE2 (Yes|No|Quit|Stop prompting)? no
Mput FILE3 (Yes|No|Quit|Stop prompting)? yes
>>>PORT 9,67,113,57,5,129
200 Port request OK.
>>>STOR FILE3
125 Storing data set /u/user31/temp/FILE3
250 Transfer completed successfully.
164 bytes transferred in 0.010 seconds.  Transfer rate 16.40 Kbytes/sec.
Command:

Context

See Using FTP for more information about the -i option.