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<x-flowed>Hi all, I need to upload some files to a ftp site regularly. But the operation has to be automatic and under the control of a special application program developed by me. Does anyone know if there is any ftp utilities available that can be called from another program (preferably DOS base)? Thanks in advance. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com </x-flowed>

Ack, what was the name of the tools in that Nuts & Volts article by Karl Lunt, Drat, let me go look at the SRS site: http://www.seanet.com/~karllunt/autodata.htm, is his unit where he has a Dos box updating his web page regularly. I can pass Cron && FNOS, the utilities he uses, and the FNOS FAQ, to anyone needing them via e-mail. (John, you may not need Cron <G>) Mark John Waters wrote: {Quote hidden}> > Hi all, > > I need to upload some files to a ftp site regularly. But the operation has > to be automatic and under the control of a special application program > developed by me. Does anyone know if there is any ftp utilities available > that can be called from another program (preferably DOS base)? > > Thanks in advance. > John > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- I do small package shipping for small businesses, world-wide.

The command line ftp utility that comes with WIN95 and above is scriptable. You invoke it from the command line like this: "ftp -s:myscript.txt" The script file is just a list of what you would normally have typed manually. Here's an example of how someone might synchronize Netscape bookmarks between work and home. open myofficemachine.somedomain.com myusername mypassword cd c:\progra~1\netscape\users\me lcd "c:\progra~1\netscape\users\me get bookmark.htm bye If you want to make the process even easier, you can create a batch file something like the following and call it something like "getbookmarks.bat". This batch passes itself to the ftp program as an argument (the first line is the clever part, notice the %0), so that everything is self contained. The batch interpreter skips the ftp script, and the ftp program generates a couple of harmless error messages, but otherwise safely ignores the lines that aren't part of the ftp script. The batch looks something like this: ftp -s:%0.bat goto done open myofficemachine.somedomain.com myusername mypassword cd c:\progra~1\netscape\users\me lcd "c:\progra~1\netscape\users\me get bookmark.htm bye :done I found this ftp-script-in-a-batch trick on a web site about dos batch files, but I can't remember how to find it again to give proper credit. On 11 Nov 99, at 16:41, John Waters wrote: {Quote hidden}> Hi all, > > I need to upload some files to a ftp site regularly. But the operation has > to be automatic and under the control of a special application program > developed by me. Does anyone know if there is any ftp utilities available > that can be called from another program (preferably DOS base)? > > Thanks in advance. > John > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > --- Peace, William Kitchen The future is ours to create.