Hello, I've been
trying to research the possibility of opening an ftp connection to an ftp host
and parsing the ftp stream prior to writing to disk. We are ftp'ing some
multi-gigabyte files to PC servers. But, we only need a few fields from each of
the records in this file. If we could strip out the fields in the connection
stream prior to writing to disk, the app would be much faster. And, our disk
requirements would be considerably smaller.
I've found some
documentation that talks about the net::ftp object as using socket and net::cmd.
This seems to imply that it may be possible to accomplish what I want to do. (Of
course this all depends on the ftp capability of the host
server.)
Has anyone written
anything like this? Or, do you know where I can find examples that show how this
may be done?
Ron Rohrssen
loc: 872 T2-R1
500 2nd Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids IA 52401
