Ftp woes

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 1:10 PM -0700 4/22/2002, Tim wrote:
>     Hi, I'm having difficulties compressing and uploading a stack
>to my FTP server. Here's the code:
>
>
> on mouseUp
>   save stack "TestStack"
>   put "PowerBookHD/Revolution Projects/TestStack.rev" into \
> tLocalFile --TestStack is a Revolution Stack containing 3 other substacks
>   put compress(tLocalFile) into URL
>"ftp://myusername@domain.com:mypassword@ftp.business.earthlink.net/www/TestStack
>"
>   close stack "TestStack"
> end mouseUp
>
> What am I missing?

It looks like your second line ("put...") is the problem. This puts the
literal string into tLocalFile, which you don't want. Try substituting this:

  put URL "binfile:/PowerBookHD/Revolution Projects/TestStack.rev" \
     into tLocalFile

That should work.

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