On 25 Apr 01 at 0:44, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Gregor J Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: FTP scripts? (was: A whole *new* bug!!)
>
>On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Christof Lange wrote:
>
>....
>
> | As I do not know how to write such a sendftp.asf I tried
> | out various external ftp DOS clients. The ftp client on the
> | Arachne download page is bug-free, but does not allow to
> | run scripts. The 1993 program ftp 0.70 supports scripts,
> | but gets a socket error (whatever that me be) after each
> | single operation. In the end I discovered a later version
> | of ftp 0.70. It seems to be identical - besides the fact
> | that it has double size and a different screen colour.
> | That one works - but when I want to close connection and
> | leave the program I have to wait for time out. But that is
> | still more practicable than the Arachne internal single
> | file method.
...
>I always like the one written by Erick Engelke (who actually
>wrote the DOS WATTCP library, used by Arachne). He just released
>a new build:
>
>ftp://dark.uwaterloo.ca
>
>Look for ftp.exe.
>
>Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Boston MA
Thank you, Gregor, this version of ftp 0.70 offers all the
features of the 1993 version including scripts, but works
perfectly, even without the time out problem.
Regards
Christof Lange
