We have used the ftp client in tcllib in fairly heavy (100s+ Mb), daily,
production use for the last couple of years with no real issues (it can
die somewhere in its guts if there are connection problems at the other
end - never found out exactly where or why, but know if it happens then
there are problems at the other end.)
 
Running on Windows, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
 
What has worked well is having a job that is purely responsible for
sending the files - keep the ftp out of your other script(s).
 
Your "client" script(s) build a list / database of files to be
transmitted, and then your ftp script tries as many times to send the
files as you want to try.  That way your FTP logic can be kept in one
place.  Make sure you check results and use catch.
 
Other than that, it works as it says on the packet ...
http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/ftp.html

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[mailto:activetcl-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of Talvo
Hornblower
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007 5:55 a.m.
To: Gene Osteen; activetcl@[...].com
Subject: Re: [Activetcl] Incorparating FTP into tcl scripts


Hi Gene,
 
There's an FTP package available as part of Tcllib which may well do
what you need. You can find the docs for it at
http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/ftp.html - it's pretty simple to use,
and has always worked well for me in the past. I have occasionally had
issues with the timing out unexpectedly, though, and although they never
gave me any major problems (I was using it manually), you might need to
watch for that more carefully in an automated program. 
 
Regards,
Mike

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	From: Gene Osteen <mailto:gosteen@[...].com>   
	To: activetcl@[...].com 
	Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:48 PM
	Subject: [Activetcl] Incorparating FTP into tcl scripts
	
	

	All,

	            I've never used FTP inside tcl. I am running TCL 8.2
on UNIX boxes and 8.4 on WINDOWS machines. I am planning on using TCL to
run as a scheduler and on of the things that will need to be done is
moving files between platforms. Any advice on how to approach this would
be most helpful.

	 

	Gene Osteen

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