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From: dsg@mitre-bedford.arpa (Dave Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Application Programming Interface for FTP
Message-ID: <11180@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 14:01:40 GMT
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If such a library exists, I'd like to hear about it.  What I've done to work
around the lack of same is to build a file with ftp commands in it and then
use system(3) to execute ftp with input redirected from the file.  To avoid
the password hassle, the ftp at our site provides the facility to have a
file called .netrc in the home directory.  This file is searched for user
names and passwords to be used on the remote system.  It isn't mentioned in
our ftp man page, so I can't be sure if it is a standard though.

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