[PLUG] Data exchange/transfer application?

[alan]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Wil Cooley wrote:

>
> I've looked on Freshmeat and maybe I'm not using the right keywords.
> Does anyone know of an server or application for automating moving
> around files?  This is for EDI and similar files; basically, we have
> dozens of jobs that pull files from one server and push them to another,
> in some cases making transformations like encrypting them with PGP.
> These transfers happen mainly over FTP and SFTP, depending on the other
> party's capabilities; sometimes they happen on a schedule, sometimes
> they happen on some external trigger like an e-mail with a particular
> subject (I don't like that, but it's what I've got at the moment), with
> notification and error reporting via log, e-mail, etc.  I don't need to
> read or write or transform EDI or HIPAA file formats, I just need to
> move them around, basically.
>
> I can imagine describing these processes in a higher-level language than
> what I have now, but I haven't actually found anything that does this.

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