Thanks, Dan. I was afraid I'd have to do it that way. My iMac has a facility called X11. Quoting from the X11 Help: "Mac OS X is based on UNIX and can run many UNIX tools and environments. With X11 for Mac OS X you can use applications that are based on the X Window System graphical user interface. X11 for Mac OS X provides a complete X Window System implementation based on open source software and includes a complete suite of standard X11 display server software, client libraries, developer toolkits, and utilities such as xterm."
I've been a Windows man the last 15 years and have no experience with X Window. But it looks hopeful. Has anyone done all this in J / Linux? Is there any discussion of this in the J Wiki? A quick word-search on FTP didn't throw up much I could relate to. I guess I need someone to suggest an opensource product I can download. Ian On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually achieve this by using task.ijs to call the command-line ftp client > on Windows. > > Mac -: Linux now, so it'll have a comparable tool. You may have to use some > OS-conditional logic to tweak the parameters (command line). > > See ftp /? on Windows and man ftp Mac. > > I don't think there's a way to avoid intermediate files for data, but you can > store your data in jpath'~temp' and use dyadic spawn to pass a script in to > ftp's stdin without needing a batch file or shell script. > > The client can download as well as upload; use the ls or dir commands to > get a directory listing. > > If the process fails, the client will just quit, and the result of spawn. > will let you know that (and why). > > -Dan > > Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Clark <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:44:55 > To: General forum<[email protected]> > Subject: [Jgeneral] FTP uploader needed > > I need a routine to upload a given file (or better: a J character > string) to a remote FTP site. I don't need a top-end like FileZilla. > The username, password, port, remote directory, filename can all be > hard-coded or passed as parameters. > > I don't need a flexible FTP session, except maybe to debug it when > working with a new site. It just needs to abort if the session goes > wrong. It would be nice if it could download as well as upload, > especially to download the directory of the remote target folder. > > I have just such a routine written in APL+Win which I've found quite > satisfactory in use, but this only works in Windows. I want to port > the APL+Win apps that make use of it to the Macintosh, for which I > don't have development tools nowadays, so (presumably) it needs to be > written in J. > > Ian Clark > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
