The ftp package is a part of Tcllib. It's included with ActiveTcl distributions, but you can
 also download the code from SourceForge. It's page on the wiki (http://wiki.tcl.tk/1246) po
ints to further pages telling you where to find it and how to install it.

Regards,
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gene Osteen 
  To: Richard Toohey ; activetcl@[...].com 
  Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [Activetcl] Incorparating FTP into tcl scripts


  First, thanks to everyone who are answering my initial query. I tried to run a very simple
 script and got the following message:

   

  Error: can't find package ftp

      while executing

  "package require ftp "

      (file "test_ftp_1.tcl" line 3)

  tom.vericlaim.com> 

   

  Obviously something very basic is going wrong. Can anyone tell me how to tell if I have th
e ftp package and how to install it if I don't?

   

   

  Gene Osteen

  803-649-7486

   

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  From: Richard Toohey [mailto:richard.toohey@[...].nz] 
  Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:39 PM
  To: Talvo Hornblower; Gene Osteen; activetcl@[...].com
  Subject: RE: [Activetcl] Incorparating FTP into tcl scripts

   

  We have used the ftp client in tcllib in fairly heavy (100s+ Mb), daily, production use fo
r the last couple of years with no real issues (it can die somewhere in its guts if there ar
e connection problems at the other end - never found out exactly where or why, but know if i
t 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 - ke
ep 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 logi
c 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/f
tp.html


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  From: activetcl-bounces@[...].com [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 ca
n 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

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Gene Osteen 

    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 o
n WINDOWS machines. I am planning on using TCL to run as a scheduler and on of the things th
at will need to be done is moving files between platforms. Any advice on how to approach thi
s would be most helpful.

     

    Gene Osteen

    803-649-7486

     

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