I have an app where I need to download items (using FTP) from the mainframe and then upload something different back. The mainframe people have instituted a requirement for an Account to be entered which means that WinInet is out. I have gotten the Control to download most of the file I need but (and this is the problem) it only downloads the file in its entirety basically when it feels like it (which isn't too often). I have tried inserting Doevents to see if it would have an effect on when DataArrival is fired to no avail. This is in the Data Connection DataArrival event code:

*** ActiveX Control Event ***
LPARAMETERS bytestotal

LOCAL cData

cData = REPLICATE(CHR(0),bytestotal)

this.obJECT.GetData(@cData)

thisform.x = thisform.x + cData

The "x" property is exported out to a file using STRTOFILE() once the Data connection has been closed. PASV semantics don't affect the problem.

I have been looking increasingly at using the Winsock API directly but need to know how to use the gethostbyname since it returns a pointer to a struct.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Richard Hamm
State of FL, DCF