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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: John Clark <email@john.net>
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Subject: Re: Automatic File Send (FTP)
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, John Clark wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to dispatch a file automatically to another server at a given
> time.  The Cron scheduling is obvious, but what is not obvious is a
> practical way of invoking an FTP agent to do the transfer.  What I am
> thinking of is the reverse of NCFTP's colon mode of file fetching (ie.
> ncftp site.name:file.name).  The script will also have to send a user name
> and pwd.  Accomplishing this is not at all obvious.  Does anyone have
> suggestions?

I've never used Expect, but I hear it's good for this sort of thing.  
Perl is also an option.
 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> John Clark
> [email@john.net]
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."