Getting a remote file in OS X

Frank Leahy frank at backtalk.com
Sat Sep 18 04:09:29 EDT 2004


On Sep 17, 2004, at 10:53 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
> Subject: Re: Getting a remote file in OS X
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Message-ID: <8CC85478-08D4-11D9-AF25-000D9350C9C2 at videotron.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> Still not working for me I'm afraid.  FTP is turned on. I also have the
> firewall on.  Do I have to specify a port?  Is it because the file I
> want is rtf?  Do I have to invoke some sort of library in Rev?
>
> on mouseUp
>    get url
> ("ftp://me:password@where/users/me/Documents/Miscellaneous/Envelope
> Template.rtf")
>    put it into fld "x"
> end mouseUp
>

Try connecting to this ftp server with Fetch or Interarchy or some 
other ftp client.  Once you know one of these programs can connect, 
they you'll find it easier to debug.

-- Frank



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