Re: [NEWBIE] Outside commands, FTP

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 01/04/01


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Luke Waite wrote:

>Ok does anyone see something wrong with this? I am trying to have it
>upload the who 2 html snippet (slightly modified) from the ftp site
>
>It goes fine manually. But freezes when it goes into ftp
>
>   system("ftp -n members.home.net"); /* The -n is because I can't
>get              it to work without -- but works with -n manually */

You're confused as to what system() does, either:

1) man popen
   Hint: FILE *writetome = popen("ftp members.home.net &");

or (recommended)

2) Don't do that.
   Set up a scheduled task (cron or MS Task) to upload the file for you.

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