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Client feature requests, product gripes, and other general questions.

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dtw01
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Feature Requests

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Is there any way to specify the destination file name on an upload using the command line? You can do it in GUI mode by right clicking on a file and choosing the Upload As option, but I haven't figured out how to do it from the command line? The only thing I can see that you can specify is the directory name, but not a specific file name to go along with it.

Could you possibly also add the option of re-directing the COREFTP.LOG file to a file of the users choosing from the command line? The problem I'm going to run into is that we have a scheduler system that will be launching many FTP'S (sometimes many within milliseconds apart) and they'll all be trying to save to the same "COREFTP.LOG" file at the same time. I was really exciting thinking that when you added the parameter of -output you added in what I just explained. The output file you have is OK, but doesn't give you the details for when a connection fails. Also if a connection fails and the COREFTP.LOG file is overwritten by a secondary session, I would have just lost the detail for what went wrong in the first transfer.

I'm currently in the process of evaluating this product for production use. We have a custom built VB scheduling system that launches jobs to run on multiple servers. We currently are doing around 400 different FTP transfers per day using a conglomeration of FTP utilities. I'm currently trying to find one FTP utility that will do it all. One that can be run as a GUI and from the command line that has the capability for almost all of the different FTP protocols to/from almost any platform. CoreFTP so far seems to be just about there. Please keep up the awesome work on this product!
dtw01
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Post by dtw01 »

I'll try these options on Monday and see how they work for our environment. The only other alternative that we were thinking of doing is writing a VB.Net wrapper for the COREFTP.exe call, and resetting the working directory in the VB code just to get the COREFTP.LOG to go into separate directories when we run multiple processes at the same time.
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Post by dtw01 »

I forgot to thank you for your fast replies. It is very much appreciated!
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Post by dtw01 »

The -log option works perfectly for what I want to use it for. Thanks!
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