Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: abomination.cygnus.com: mdejong owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:55:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mo DeJong To: Rabbe Fogelholm cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Scripting FTP transactions ... how? In-Reply-To: <3916C503@operamail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com