Hi Nadya,

MGET is not exactly an FTP command. This is a command of FTP.EXE utility that triggers a certain routine. I may guess this routine uses raw ftp command LIST (or NLIST) to enumerate files on the remote server. Then it calls RETR for each filename matching the mask.

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Behind a single file being uploaded to an FTP server there's always a chain of raw FTP commands sent from local computer to the server. For example:

CWD /mydir/
TYPE I
PASV
STOR myfile.txt

For each raw command received, the server shoots a response back to the client:

250 CWD command successful
200 Type set to I
227 Entering Passive Mode [999,999,99,999,99,999]
125 Data connection already open. Transfer starting.
226 Transfer complete.

Once you get "226 Transfer complete" -- that's a confirmation that your upload completed successfully.

To program this functionality in Visual FoxPro, use FtpCommand along with other WinINet API calls. Another option is using Winsock ActiveX or Winsock API.

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The InternetWriteFile in WinINet allows writing to an open file on remote server. So you may transfer your local file to an ftp server by small portions.

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I apologize for that encyclopaedia :), an old piece of code that I should remove long time ago.