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- Yes, I wrote a separate program to do the receiving. The program managing
- the control connection starts up the "receiver" with the port number as a
- command line argument. Crude, but it works. e-mail me if you want to know
- more.
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- >I'm trying to write a program in Visual Basic that is able to establish an FTP
- >connection with a host on the internet. I'm using the VTSockets VBX custom
- >control.
- >
- >Right now, I think I've narrowed the problem down to the following:
- >I have a 'control' connection with the FTP server, which seems to work fine.
- >In order to establish a data transfer connection, I think I need to set up a
- >second socket, which will then 'listen' (at a different port) and wait for to
- >host to initiate the transfer of data How do I set up a 'listening' socket,
- >and on which port should it listen??
- >
- >Does anybody out there have any experience with this??
- >
- >I hope I made my problem clear and somebody can help me.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Martijn Hemelrijk
- >
- >______________________________________________________________
- >Martijn Hemelrijk hemelryk@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
- >Vanderbilt University phone: (615) 322-2212
- >Box 1804, Sta. B fax: (615) 343-6449
- >Nashville, TN 37235 home: (615) 298-3356
- Eric Blossom 415 855-2270 EricBlossom@.epri.com
- Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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