Re: BATCH ftp ?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mark Allen wrote:
>
> Having a problem with getting this to do what I want.  What I need it to
> do is stay in the FTP session after the dir in the sctipt file (listed
> below) because we do not know what the file name will be.  I want the
> operator to manually enter the appropriate get command but the ftp
> session does an "implicit" quit after the last line of the FTP script
> and the runqry starts.  Can I do wat I want or is the "whole" thing
> going to have to be manual.
>

Err... once you run the FTP command, you can't exit it without
disconnecting from the server.

A *much* easier way to do this would be with my open-source FTPAPI
service program.  It's designed to let you write your own FTP client
with minimal effort, and make it do whatever you like.

Here is an example of how you could do this with FTPAPI (example is
in RPG IV):

 C* Connect to server
 C                   eval      fd = ftp_conn('host': 'userid': 'password')
 C                   if        fd < 0
 c                   eval      Msg = ftp_error
 C*  here you'd want to display the error message "MSG" and then abort
 c                   endif

 C* Change directory
 C                   callp     ftp_chdir(fd: 'pub/SomeDir/Somewhere')

 C* do a "dir" to "my_array", one filename per array entry
 C                   if        ftp_list(fd: '*.txt': 5:
 C                                 %addr(my_array): num_files) < 0
 c                   callp     ftp_error(error_num)
 c                   if        error_num = FTP_NOFILE
 C*  no files were in that directory
 c                   else
 c                   eval      msg = ftp_error
 c*      display error message here
 c                   endif

 C* grab each file in this directory
 C                   for      f = 1 to num_files
 c                   callp    ftp_get(fd: my_array(f): '/localdir/'+
 c                                my_array(f))
 c                   endfor

 C* disconnect from server
 c                   callp    ftp_quit(fd)


Much easier than trying to do the same thing with an FTP script!

If you check the return code from every function (I only did it on
ftp_conn and ftp_list in that example) you'd be able to detect every
error in your transmission without having to parse a complicated
output file.

So, check it out... it's free, and only requires V3R2 or later.
 http://klement.dstorm.net/ftpapi/