> On Wed, 02 May 2001 21:44:45 -0500,
> "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but remember that ftpbin.exe
> is a standalone FTP client similar to Wattcp FTP. It has nothing to
> do with the FTP server that is built into the telnet client.
> In order to use telbin.exe for FTP on the Internet, you'll need a
> shell account to telnet to, so you can FTP back to your PC.
Not quite. You can use the standalone ftpbin or its cousens with
NCSA or CUTCP telnet, if you hit alt-E to escape to dos and then
run ftpbin to start a file transfer from the dos side instead of the
reverse. I have done this and it works. I am not sure what the advantage
would be.
For that matter, you can ftpbin directly to a remote site if that
site has its own (unix) ftp server and permits anonymous access
such as simtelnet.
I know the documentation on ftpbin or ftp for dos claims to accept
scripts on its command line. But I have never seen any documentation
from Clarksen U. or NCSA that describes that specific commands that
can go in these scripts nor if these scripts work in the same way as
the scripts for the ordinary ftp command found on Unix. On the latter,
any ftp command can be part of a script, if the script is executed by
an ftp macro, and there is a provision to run an initial script on a
specific remote host, automatically when you start ftp and direct it
to that host.
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Howard Schwartz
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theo "at" ncal.verio.com
