David-

Agreed. We used the FTP from Novell LANWorkplace, though I don't remember why. I'm not looking forward to a future lacking redirection & pipes.

Bye,
-Porter

>Porter,
>
>The FTP program that ships with Windows will take a file that contains all of the ftp commands that you want to run.
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>>This may not apply to your situation but I used it several times in the FPD/FPW26 era:
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>>Find a DOS command line FTP program. If you can find one that has a scripting language, you may wish to use that. Otherwise, read on.
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>>Use the FTP program from the command line & note _exactly_ what entries you make to accomplish your goal. Keep is simple.
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>>Make a text file which contains the same keystrokes you just used.
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>>Use input redirection to pump your keystroke file into the FTP program:
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>>C:\> FTP < MyKeys.txt
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>>Play with your keystroke file until it works.
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>>Now run the FTP program from VFP:
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>>RUN FTP < MyKeys.txt
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>>Once you get that working, the fun begins. Use VFP to create your keystroke file(s) on the fly. You can also redirect the FTP output to a file & fread() the resulting file to determine what actually happened.
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>>In general, simple scripts work best. Use several scripts to execute a complex task.
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>>If you manage to capture the result code from the FTP program, tell me how you did it!