Hope I'm not way off-base here, but....

[oldmainframehack]

Hi, again!
Seems I'm back to pick the collective brains of the community.... I've got a windows forms app that needs to grab a smallish file via FTP... The following command (from command line) works fine....

ftp -s:ftpget.txt -A 102.168.42.190

contents of ftpget.txt look like this:

get 000000098982.csv
bye

However...... In my windows forms app, there's a finction I wrote to handle this that I call FTPGet... Here's what it looks like:

Private Function FTPGet(ByRef file As String) As Boolean
'MsgBox(file & " " & Server)
Dim My_File As New System.IO.StreamWriter(path & "FTPGET.TXT")
My_File.WriteLine("get " & file)
My_File.WriteLine("bye ")
My_File.Close()
Thread.Sleep(100)
Shell("c:\WINDOWS\system32\ftp.exe -s:ftpget.txt -A " & Server, , True)
Thread.Sleep(100)
'MsgBox("after FTP attempt")
Return True
End Function

... and this never seems to work.... I get the new text in the ftpget.txt file each time, but no luck actually doing the ftp...

Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks, as always, for ANY light anyone can shed on this!

Joe

[oldmainframehack]

Nevermind, folks... I'm the moron!
The ftpget.txt file didn't specify where to put the gotten file, so it got stuffed right where the program was run from, which is NOT where I wanted it... Something silly like specifying where you want the file parked after FTP's gotten it made ALL the difference! Sometimes it pays to write out the post, just because it makes you think a little more clearly!

Happy Wednesday to all and sundry!

Joe

[dunfiddlin]

Sometimes it pays to write out the post, just because it makes you think a little more clearly!

Does that mean you'lll be repping everyone just for being here. then?

[oldmainframehack]

Does that mean you'lll be repping everyone just for being here. then?

Rep, Rep, Rep.....(grin)