Re: FTP scripting

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:49 12/14/1998 -0600, Bob Clark wrote:
>This might be a little off topic but here goes.  I am trying to automate
>the download of some files from the AS/400 using FTP.  I chose FTP
>because I don't see the need to chew up a Client Access license for this
>application.  I am having problems logging on to the AS/400 FTP server
>using a text file as a script.  I keep getting invalid command messages
>when I attempt to use the USER and PASS subcommands.  I have tried this
>using the Windows NT 4.0 FTP client as well the Windows '95 client.

Bob,

Look at the command line help for ftp. There's a switch (I think it's -n)
that tells it not to prompt for user/pwd.
Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh
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