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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mo DeJong <mdejong AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Rabbe Fogelholm <eubrafo AT operamail DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Scripting FTP transactions ... how?
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Try out Tcl-FTP.

http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Traeger/tindexe.htm

Cygwin comes with a Tcl shell so it should not be hard to
get it working.

If you have not used Tcl before, you will need to do a little
learning, but it is well worth your time.

Mo Dejong
Red Hat Inc.

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have this seemingly trivial problem: I wish to do some FTP file transfers
> from within a Bourne shell script that runs on top of CygWin and Windows 9x.
> 
> On Solaris, Linux etc I would use the plain old "ftp" command, possibly
> creating a .netrc file on-the-fly if needed. This does not seem to work
> at all with the Win32 FTP command. Furthermore, CygWin Tools does not
> contain an ftp command either.
> 
> I did look around for some shareware client, but without success so far.
> 
> If I were doing only downloads (no uploads) I could get along with Lynx.
> However, I need a solution for the upload case as well.
> 
> Any hints welcome! There ought to be a solution for a trivial problem
> like this, only I don't know in which direction to look.
> 
> --Rabbe Fogelholm, Sollentuna, Sweden
> 
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