Re: Off-topic: FTPeditor for backup

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Harry Binswanger  on Sun, 14 Dec 2003
18:07:01 -0500


> There's always the option of backing up to the web, assuming you
> have access to an ISP-supplied home page of your own or some other
> site you can FTP your files to.

Frame PUTFTP has been in U2 for five or more years now. It works perfectly,
from the XyWrite command line. Why do drag-n-drop when you can use the command
line and never leave XyWrite? Requires XyShell.

Syntax: PUTFTP [/B] "d:\path\local_filename" ...
...[username:password@]domain[/subdirectories]/remote_filename [B|a]
 where: "/B" represents Background operation
     "username:password" default to "anonymous:my_Email_address"
     "B[inary]|a[scii]" defaults to "B"
e.g. PUTFTP "c:\xy4\my.txt" ftp.server.com/incoming/anonymous.txt a

Seems to me that a command line util is exactly what you want. A little
program, perhaps loaded on a key, could auto-write the current filename to a
remote FTP directory, e.g.:

XPLeNCODE v2.0
b-gin [UNTITLED]
{<}SX01,{<}VA$FP{>}{>}{<}SX02,{<}VA$FI{>}{>}{<}SX50,""""+{<}I
S01{>}+""" username:password@domain/subdirectory/"+{<}IS02{>}
{>}[JM_]2.PutFTP[Q2_]{<}EX{>}[cr|lf]
-nd
XPLeNCODE

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