API FTP.exe

DanRoche · June 25th, 2009, 11:48 AM

Greetings, I wasn't sure where to put this since I didn't see an api forum.

I'm not implementing this particular code in VB, but it's all api, so it shouldn't matter, should it?

I want to use FTP.exe through createprocess api so that I can implement waitforsingleobject.

Here is my command:

Code:

createprocess("c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe","c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /C c:\winnt\system32\ftp.exe -i -s:ftpscript.txt > c:\temp\ftp.out"), 0,0,0,0,0, sys(5)+sys(2003),@lcStartupInfo, @lcProcInfo)

I'm using cmd.exe cause I want to pipe output. The ftp.out file has the following in it:
ftpscript.txt contains:
open IPAddress
username
password
binary
put bob.xls
bye

ftp.out contains:
ftp> ftp>
ftp> open IPAddress
Invalid command.
ftp> Username
Invalid command.
ftp> password
Not connected.
ftp> binary
Not connected.
ftp> put bob.xls
bye

This works without createprocess, but then I can't use WaitForSingleObject, right?

Thanks

vb5prgrmr · June 25th, 2009, 10:45 PM

As long as you have a handle to the process (CreateProcess, ShellExecute, etc.) you can use the WaitForSingleObject to wait upon the process.

Good Luck

DanRoche · June 26th, 2009, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vb5prgrmr

As long as you have a handle to the process (CreateProcess, ShellExecute, etc.) you can use the WaitForSingleObject to wait upon the process.

Good Luck

I didn't think you could do this with shellexecute because it doesn't return a handle to the process.

vb5prgrmr · June 27th, 2009, 10:31 PM

Opps... Sorry... followed by FindWindow. Forgot that when looked at example and wrote reply.