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From: TANNERC@CRL.AECL.CA (CHRISTOPHER TANNER)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Running WIN/TCP (VMS) FTP from batch
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Date: 14 Jan 91 19:39:00 GMT
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I am using WIN/TCP 5.1 on VMS 5.4 and am trying to run FTP inside a command
procedure (in a batch job). I would like to create a command file for FTP in
inside the command procedure on a temporary file (with a "unique" name) and
pass it to FTP. I have tried putting the 'commandfile' command on the FTP
command line with little success. I cannot get FTP to pick up the username
and password properly.

Putting the 'commandfile' command in FTP's regular input (ie in a line right
after the FTP line) will not work, since I want to pass the file name in a
logical.

I would like to be able to execute something like:
   FTP commandfile 'ftpcommands'

rather than
  $ FTP -n hostname
   username
   password
   commandfile filename.txt


THanks for your help

Chris Tanner                          TANNERC@CRL.AECL.CA
AECL Research