topic Re: Ftp script in Operating System - OpenVMS

Ftp script

Abdel Guelmamene — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 07:13:29 GMT

Hi to all,
I want to transfert files (files are gÃ©nÃ©rated automaticly by C program) one by one from HP-UX to NT system.

My task is how can i do to run ftp from my C program and pass the file name to FTP.

I need a script to automate transfer files from HP-UX to NT via FTP.
Help is badly needed on this case.
thanks in advan

Re: Ftp script

Åge Rønning — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:51:03 GMT

The easiest way would be to use LIB$SPAWN with the FTP command with /INPUT=command-file to specify the files to put/get.

Or use LIB$SPAWN to execute a command procedure to do whatever you like.

Re: Ftp script

Martin P.J. Zinser — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:42:06 GMT

Hello Abdel,

thats what you get for asking an HP-UX question in an hp OpenVMS forum. Ages answer is perfectly correct (in case you used OpenVMS), but pretty useless to you ;-).

Try your question again in the HP-UX forum at

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=117

I guess the solution will involve a call to fork(). Since I have not touched UX in a long time, I am not sure about the ftp part, on Linux your could do something like

ftp ftp://user:pwd@node/ to provide most of the parameters already. The rest (since you want to "put") would need to come from a temporary input file most probably.

Greetings, Martin

Re: Ftp script

Åge Rønning — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:47:39 GMT

Ooooops!!!
First rule: Assume nothing! (And read the Q...)
Sorry! Just read the task and assumed VMS in this forum....

Re: Ftp script

Abdel Guelmamene — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:13:54 GMT

Hi,
I'm not using OpenVMS!!!

Regards