Ftp Help Please

[Robyn]

I was trying to use the FTP functions. They work fine for a basic application where I know the file name on the remote server. However, what happens if I don't know the exact file name or I know only part of it and I need to find the exact name to put into FTP.strRemoteFile? What if I want to search the files that are there to find the latest one by date?

I would appreciate your help here. Until I can get a bit more flexibilty in what I am trying to do I am stuck

Thanks

[AzeoTech]

DAQFactory was never designed to be a full FTP client. It simply does upload and download and does not offer any sort of directory retrieval or the like as you describe. For that, I would consider trying to use system.shellExecute() to run the command line ftp program, piping the result to a text file that you could the read using the File. functions. It wouldn't be super easy, but is probably do-able if you are reasonably comfortable at writing code.

[Robyn]

I have just started to use Webdrive, http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html it maps my ftp directory to a drive on my PC and DF seems to be able to handle that fine. This gives me access to all the normal file functions and I don't have to consider ftp at all, except for setting up Webdrive

[AzeoTech]

Cool, thanks for the posting the link. Looks like an interesting product. Plus you can use sFTP or other more secure protocol instead of the open text FTP. I wonder why the Mac version of that product is so much cheaper than the PC version?

[Robyn]

There is also another product Netdrive http://www.netdrive.net/ which is not quite as polished but does work for me with DAQF and has a free version for non commercial use