> >However, now my clients want me to create a button that could ftp to a > UNIX plateform server and merge those text files into my databases. > >I know that fopen() function could only open the files in the local > machine and return a logical expression. But I want to able to open up a > socket like most of the ftp command. Is there any command that will allow > me to do so?? > > > >Any ideas!! > > I saw something here where someone subclassed IE to put on a form that > started the IE browser. I do not see why you could not subclass something > like FTP-Pro and place it on a form to start up a pre-defined FTP session. > I still think there would have to be some "user-intervention" to select the > files to retrieve/download. I am not sure if FTP-Pro could be setup to do > an automated download from a predetermined site into your TextFile > sub-directory. I don't know about FTP PRO but there are FTP ActiveX controls that can be fully automated Arnon