Unsolicited File Transfer
Here, "unsolicited" does not mean "unwanted" but rather that the recipient did not fetch the file and the sender might not have sign-on credentials on the target host.
UFT is sometimes expanded to "Universal File Transfer", a name with less baggage.
This repository has both POSIX and VM/CMS components.
The POSIX (Unix, Linux, and other Unix-like systems)
source is in the src directory.
The usual sequence of steps to build UFT on a POSIX system is ...
./configure
make
make install
make clean
The configure script is not very sophisticated.
The only option it takes is --prefix.
UFT mimics the operation of IBM's RSCS and other IBM mainframe file transfer networking (specifically NJE). So naturally, there is a VM/CMS implementation of UFT. The VM/CMS implementation was not originally maintained in this project but is now included in this new home.
See the cms directory.
NJE stands for "Network Job Entry" and is a well established protocol for sending files and interactive messages. UFT provides the same service but with an open protocol.
There are several solutions available to enable NJE networking on Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux. UFT exists to simplify topology and interconnect. In plain English, you don't have to run an NJE server or daemon on your Linux systems to use UFT. You can send files with only the UFT client. (If you need to receive files then of course you do need the server.)
Pre-compiled and otherwise runnable packages are available from