Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-29 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Mark, Richard and Dr. Hawkins, Much obliged for all the tips. Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-28 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Richard, > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Richard Gaskin: > > Seems I missed that. I thought he was posting to his own server. It > wouldn't have occurred to me that a government site still uses FTP. Yes, Doc Hawkins was right: I’m downloading from the Securities and Exchange Commissio

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > But does it support ftp protocol? I though it needed ssh access. >> >> It does require SSH, and moreover if used within LiveCode requires >> shared SSH keys to avoid the password prompt, which is why I'd >> provid

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > But does it support ftp protocol? I though it needed ssh access. > > It does require SSH, and moreover if used within LiveCode requires shared > SSH keys to avoid the password prompt, which is why I'd provided the link > to the tutorial

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> I most commonly use the "-avz" options when transferring outside my >> local network (just "-av" for local, since the compression isn't as >> useful over Gb ethernet): > > I use -auvz by finger memory. The u skips

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I most commonly use the "-avz" options when transferring outside my local > network (just "-av" for local, since the compression isn't as useful over > Gb ethernet): > I use -auvz by finger memory. The u skips files that are newer on the

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > >> Thanks for the detailed handler! I’ll give it a whirl. Blocking is >> not really the problem for me; it’s the session timeouts or dropped >> connection when downloading many files in a loop > > Unless you're using win

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > > Thanks for the detailed handler! I’ll give it a whirl. Blocking is not > really the problem for me; it’s the session timeouts or dropped connection > when downloading many files in a loop Unless you're using windows look at the command l

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Gregory Lypny wrote: Richard, yes, put url works well. I too keep it simply. I’m not familiar with shared SSH keys, but I’ll look into it. Thanks. It's a game-changer. Once you have that set up you can use scp, rsync, and many other shell commands from LiveCode, easily and securely. There

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Mark Talluto
On Apr 27, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > Robert, thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try. This may be the problem as I > was able to download 60,000 of 130,000 files without a problem until it > stopped. When I restarted the loop, it stopped roughly every 200. You are going to want g

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-27 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Robert and Richard, Robert, thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try. This may be the problem as I was able to download 60,000 of 130,000 files without a problem until it stopped. When I restarted the loop, it stopped roughly every 200. > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, at 4:44 AM,Robert Brenstein wrote

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Gregory Lypny wrote: > Blocking is not really the problem for me; it’s the session timeouts > or dropped connection when downloading many files in a loop. I think > the public server does not like repeated calls with the same > connection, but I do not know how to make a new connection for, say,

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-24 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 24.04.2015 at 8:43 Uhr -0400 Gregory Lypny apparently wrote: Hi Phil, Thanks for the detailed handler! I'll give it a whirl. Blocking is not really the problem for me; it's the session timeouts or dropped connection when downloading many files in a loop. I think the public server does not

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
how to make a new connection for, say, every 100 downloads. Gregory > Message: 12 > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:43:11 -0700 > From: Phil Davis > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Need Help With FTP > Message-ID: <5539757f.8050...@pdslabs.net> > Content-Type: text/p

Re: Need Help With FTP

2015-04-23 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Gregory, I would probably use the "load" command because it's a non-blocking way to do it - it doesn't prevent interaction while it's working. Maybe something like this (I didn't test this): -- button -- on mouseUp doDownload end mouseUp -- card or stack -- # required: # fld "status

Need Help With FTP

2015-04-23 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I’m working on a big research project that requires that I download many small files (under 2MB) from the US Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) public FTP site. I have the links to all of the files I need, and I’m wondering how I would use a LiveCode “repeat with” loop to