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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Client API (Product: DBLFTP Version 1.0)

Communicate directly with FTP servers from your Synergy application. Support most of the common functions for transferring binary and ascii files to and from an FTP server using passive mode.

The API supports the equivalent of the following FTP commands

CWD Change the current directory on the server
LIST List the contents of a directory
TYPE Set file type for transfer (Binary or ASCII)
RETR Requests the server to send a file
STOR Sends a file from the client to the server
DELE Removes a file from the server
MKD Creates a directory on the server
RMD Removes a directory from the server

This API makes it simple to transfer file to and from an FTP server. Here is an example of how to use the API to transfer a image file to a server.

.main testftp
.include "ftp_defines.def"
.align
record
    ftp  ,D_ADDR
    err  ,i4

.proc
    ;connect to ftp server
    err = %ftp_connect(ftp, "ftp.myserver.com", "username", "password")
    if (.not. err)
        begin
        ;upload image file to server
        err = %ftp_putfile(ftp, FTP_FILE, "c:\temp\logo.jpg",, FTP_BINARY, "logo.jpg")

        ;issue other ftp command to server here

        end
    ;disconnect from ftp server
    xcall ftp_disconnect(ftp)
.end

The API is written totally in Synergy DBL using the socket API, so it can be used on any platform that the Synergy Socket API is supported on.

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