>>>We have been running an FTP application for over 10 years. It uses an ActiveX control that has worked well but now it's starting to hiccup with later O/S versions, and I want to replace it.
>>>I checked around the web and found several postings regarding FTP from VFP but most were posted a long time ago.
>>>I'd like to avoid using an ActiveX if possible.
>>>Any suggestions?
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>>I wrote an implementation recently that uses MIT's CURL executable as a command-line tool. It has a wide array of protocols and supports everything necessary for basic FTP, secure FTP, and more. It is also actively maintained with source code. I wrote a small wrapper DLL which intercepted the STDOUT and STDERR to capture the output from the program and then post-process it in VFP. The same thing could be achieved by using "curl commands >> output.txt" and then reading in output.txt. However, using the wrapper I am able to parse the file in real-time and obtain percentages, etc.
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>>In any event ... CURL worked well.
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>That sounds interesting, Thanks Rick.

I've used the CURL thingy and of course the stuff from WestWind - both of which were fine, however in some cases neither of those will work. If you're trying to connect to an sFTP on a mainframe (in my case it was an AS/400 I think) then neither of those will work. To get around that problem I use WinSCP - which has a built in scripting language - and then I just run the script using RUN/N or oshell.