FTP Commands

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O'Connor, Denis

Can someone recommend a source that describes the FTP commands.

Thanks

Denis O'Connor
Manager of Operations
EUA Cogenex Corp.
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Lowell, MA 01852
 
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William Hullsiek

On your Windows-NT system, typically type ftp -?

If you are looking for control of FTP from an Application, check-out www.mabry.com FTP Active-X controls.


William F. Hullsiek
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There is a program called ws_ftp. Search for it on the web and download the manual. It has a very nice description of the commands and the return codes.

Bill
 
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The definitive source is RFC 959 which defines FTP; you can get it from many places but one which comes to mind is www.rfc.net. It is also available as STD 9.

(RFC = Request For Comment, STD = Standard. Most RFCs are either of little interest to most people or have been superceded, the STDs distill the useful information from the rest. Any Internet die hard will still refer to it as RFC 959, though.)

Also worth a look is STD 1 which lists all the Internet protocols and points to the current specifications for them all.

Mark Rogers, Product Manager
Citect (UK) Ltd, Peterborough, England
 
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You didn't ask this exactly, but you can also find Visual BASIC add-on tools (like at http://www.catalyst.com/) which allow you to create custom applications using FTP to move/archive/manage data files. These (in effect)
hide the FTP commands and protocol issues into the "Methods" of an FTP object under Visual BASIC.

Regards

Lynn August Linse, Senior Product Application Engineer
15353 Barranca Parkway, Lantronix Inc, Irvine CA 92618
[email protected] www.lantronix.com
Tel: (949)450-7272 Fax: (949)453-7132
 
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Mark Rogers wrote:

> >Can someone recommend a source that describes the FTP commands.
>
> The definitive source is RFC 959 which defines FTP; you can get it
> from many places but one which comes to mind is www.rfc.net. It is
> also available as STD 9.
>
> (RFC = Request For Comment, STD = Standard. Most RFCs are either of
> little interest to most people or have been superceded, the STDs
> distill the useful information from the rest. Any Internet die hard
> will still refer to it as RFC 959, though.)

They are also very formal descriptions. There is a lot of open source ftp software, both for server and client. Linux is probably the easiest place to find such code in abundance.

If you wany an easy to read code sample, try looking at Python (also available for DOS and Windows), which has ftp as a subset of it's URL
modules, and is a very easy method of implementing internet protocols, you can interactively knock together a few code snippetts and play.
 
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