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Re: FTP directly from Mathematica

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg104384] Re: FTP directly from Mathematica
• From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
• Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:00:47 -0500 (EST)
• References: <hc91nj$e3h$1@smc.vnet.net>

"David Reiss" <dbreiss at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hc91nj$e3h$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Is there a way to directly FTP from Mathematica?  I'd very much prefer
> to do this not directly using JLink or other Java tool.  Of course if
> java is used behind the scenes by a Mathematica function, that's
> fine...
>
> --David
>

Thanks to
http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/Apr/msg00125.html

You can do Import["ftp...."] but in the example above there is a ";" at the 
end, on version 7, I had to remove this for it to work ok, so just type the 
URI without ";" at the end, i.e. as in

Import["ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/readme.txt";]

--Nasser