Inserting the IP address into FTPclient.exe

Question

Hello All,
I'm wondering if there is a way to insert the IP address into the FTPclient.exe and launch it?  I've seen this post and mpencke echos pretty much all of my concerns.
- I don't want to reinvent the FTP utility.
- I don't want to have to go through MAX
- I don't want my users to have to download a separate piece of third party software and learn how to use it (if I can help it).
All I need to do is display files and allow the user to browse through them, delete files, and on rare occasion, transfer one or two.  The FTPclient has everthing I need right there.  This will be a cleanup action, so even this will rarely be done.
Back to mpencke's post, the way I read it nobody really answered his quetion, he simply assumed it is not possible outside of MAX based on the responses going elsewhere.  Is there a way to populate the IP address of the FTPclient?  If not, can somebody confirm that it is not possible and explain why?

Answer 1

In order to use the windows ftp.exe via SysExec, you need to look at the ftp help on command line arguments.  In particular -s:filename, which allows the ftp client to run a scripted set of commands while inside of a session.  The idea being that you generate the file progrmatically, and then execute it via SysExec.
FTP [-v] [-d] [-i] [-n] [-g] [-s:filename] [-a] [-A] [-x:sendbuffer] [-r:recvbuf
fer] [-b:asyncbuffers] [-w:windowsize] [host]
-v Suppresses display of remote server responses.
-n Suppresses auto-login upon initial connection.
-i Turns off interactive prompting during multiple file
transfers.
-d Enables debugging.
-g Disables filename globbing (see GLOB command).
-s:filename Specifies a text file containing FTP commands; the
commands will automatically run after FTP starts.
-a Use any local interface when binding data connection.
-A login as anonymous.
-x:send sockbuf Overrides the default SO_SNDBUF size of 8192.
-r:recv sockbuf Overrides the default SO_RCVBUF size of 8192.
-b:async count Overrides the default async count of 3
-w:windowsize Overrides the default transfer buffer size of 65535.
host Specifies the host name or IP address of the remote
host to connect to.
Notes:
- mget and mput commands take y/n/q for yes/no/quit.
- Use Control-C to abort commands.
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