what to do after a Get URL?

Douglas Westbrook wdesigns at austin.rr.com
Thu Aug 18 18:06:59 EDT 2005


> get url "ftp://a.b.c/d.txt"
> put it into field " whatever"

On Aug 18, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Jon wrote:

> I understand how to write the statement
>
> get url "ftp://a.b.c/d.txt"
> put it into field " whatever"

> or some such.  OK, so now the file is somehow "in" the computer,  
> with the Get.
>
> What I don't "get" (so to speak) is how to put that data into my  
> local computer as a file.  I assume it is something like
>
> put url "file://something"
>
> but I'm not sure about the "something".  "file://c:/dir/ 
> filename.txt"?  "file://c/dir/filename.txt"?  And I'm not sure how  
> to specify the data to "put" in the Put statement: is it implicit  
> (one of those magic words like "it" or "this" or something)?
>
> I'm sure this is simple/obvious, but only if you know it...
>
> :)
>
> Jon
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