[ale] How to Automate FTP ????

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

> "Vijayaraman.S,J16 Chennai" wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>  well this is actually a help i need. I need to automate FTP to  a
> particular machine from my client an Windows NT
>  i want to upload data from this NT to a Unix box or an IBM S/390
> (mainframe) every 5 minutes ,but i am not able to automate the ftp to
> given IP address say for example i need to FTP data to 123.100.123.12
> with a user id of 'xyz' and password 'abcd' with binary mode of
> transfer and a default directory of 'dir1' in the host. Any
> ideas??????

You can do it with perl.  I believe the module you will need is called
NET.  I'm about to do the same thing, but haven't gotten much further
than a bit of research.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> S. VIJAYARAMAN,

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