Overview of AFD (continued)


Do something with the file before or after distribution.

External programs like bzip2, convert, tar, etc
Use Internal routines as renaming, assemble, extract, etc

Supports many protocols (uses its own implementation)

FTP + FTPS
SFTP + SCP
HTTP + HTTPS
SMTP
WMO
EXEC (execute an external program, eg. lpr)
LOCAL (copy/move files locally)