RE: Internetty thingies.
- Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Apr 09, 2002
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mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote: > How do you retrieve a file from a remote location? > > 1) I need to check the existence of a file on a different computer. > Can I set the path (for exw) as \\(name of comp)\c\directory, like > appears > in the win explorer window? I just tried this with dir() and it worked fine. Note: I needed to put a trailing "\\" on the end of a directory name. As an example if I wanted to get the contents of a shared directory called "WORK" on a PC called "MAIN" I could: object d d = dir("\\\\MAIN\\WORK\\") > 2) I wish to write a routine, that, given a sequence of strings > containing > url's, it will download each url's file into a given directory. It > doesn't > need to search the files' contents for dependant files, just the file > itself. Any ideas? As others have mentioned one way is to use the TCP library called euTCP4u. The euTCP4u package comes with an example program called "get_file.exw" which will retrieve one file from a web server. This could be easily modified to download from a list. Ray Smith http://rays-web.com