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Re: Starting ftp from IDl [message #11610]

Fri, 24 April 1998 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Martin Fuhrer wrote:
>
> Hi IDL Experts
>
> I'm writing an IDL application and I want to create a button which
> starts a ftp-based file transfer automatically. The address of the
> host and the user name can be hardwired somewhere in the code.
> I've tried to start ftp from the command line and I got the following
> error message:
> IDL> $ftp myhost
> (myhost::myuser:) login: Access of user wdenied.
>
> Any hint on how to implement this feature is very appreciated by

We've addressed this exact same question. This is the approach we've taken.
An IDL procedure writes out a temporary shell script containing the proper
commands, e.g.

#!/bin/csh
cd /mydir
ftp -n << done remote.computer.address
user username password
cd /mydir
ascii
put my.file "my.file"
quit
done

Then we spawn the commands

SPAWN, "source temporary.file", junk
SPAWN, "rm temporary.file", junk

William Thompson

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