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From: abair@oakhill.UUCP (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Source for FTP c callable functions
Keywords: FTP functions source
Message-ID: <1856@turbinia.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 21:57:38 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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The group I work for would like to be able to pipe data to FTP
instead of writting an intermediate file and then invoking FTP to
transfer the file.  As far as I know you cannot directly pipe to
FTP or get it to read STDIN for the file to transfer.

Therefore, I would like to know if there are any c callable functions
that know the FTP protocol.  Then the program that genreates the
data file could open the connection and feed the data directly
across the connection to the FTP server at the other end.

If these types of rotuines do not already exist, how hard would it
be to write a set of functions to do this.  We only need a limited
set of the capabilites of FTP, like only one direction, fixed record
format, minimal error correction, etc.

Please email, since I normally do not read this group.

Thanks,
Alan Bair
SPS CAD  Austin, Texas
Motorola, Inc.
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