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Article: 13848 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com (Dan Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit FTP script
Date: 14 Nov 2002 22:13:37 -0800
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fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote in message news:<ar0j7k$ea6$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>...
> In article <8ce22d01.0211132107.1a569739@posting.google.com>,
> Dan Skinner <JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com> wrote:
> : ...
> : Do you think success is the right answer to a failed login?
> : The rules are the rules, but sometimes logic should prevail.
> :
> The primary purpose of the FTP OPEN command is to open an FTP connection.
> If it succeeds in that, it doesn't fail.
>
> As a convenience -- and also for secure connection types -- authentication
> can also be performed as a consequence of this command. This can succeed
> or fail separately, and thus it's tested seperately.
>
> : When this script is done it will be run by cron as part of a scheduled
> : backup on the network. I'll find out what happened by email so (as
> : you say) if fail is a big deal and the more info in the email the
> : better. I'm using Kermit FTP rather than native FTP for this reason.
> :
> Right, and of course you can have your Kermit script compose the email
> message, plugging all sorts of relevant information into it from Kermit's
> built-in variables ("show variables") and whatever else you want.
>
> - Frank
Yup;
Appreciated and agreed. BUT I would expect a function for which any
part failed to yield a negative return code and which might allow me
to check more thourghly if I care. If I can't use the result of the
open in a subsequent function the result of the open should be fail?
Regards...Dan.