Problem in Displaying FTP Transferred Files ... (Square Characters... etc)

Got it dude... I just replace the binary into ascii... I thought transferring it through ascii will be slower than binary... hehe

Thanks a lot dude.. hehe

1 burden down ... hehe

Do you guys know how to run the FTP command in java? I am having this problem now?It seemed that it doesn't stop although I already transferred the file from remote server to my local.

Here is the simple program I created just to test the transfer:

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public void getFiles(String configFile, String host,FileWriter writer) throws IOException{

//Command: ftp -n -s:test.cfg 192.168.3.1

try{

Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();

Process proc = rt.exec("ftp -n -s:" + configFile.trim() + " " + host.trim());

InputStream stderr = proc.getErrorStream();

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(stderr);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);

String line = null;

while ( (line = br.readLine()) != null)

System.out.println("Error Line: " + line);

int exitVal = proc.waitFor();

writer.write("FTP Transfer: Remote to Local - Done!");

writer.write("Process exitValue: " + exitVal);

writer.close();

} catch (Throwable t){ t.printStackTrace(); }

}

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I do not know what part in the code is the problem... :-( I am just new to java (I am previously handling VB application - no choice).

khickyphutza at 2007-7-10 11:21:48 >

I already have downloaded the package but I am afraid I cannot find some sample programs on how to use Jakarta Commons Net FTP ... :-(

We are only limitted to 5 sites here and I have a hard time looking for sample programs considering this 5 sites limitation policy of the company.

Running the windows xp FTP command in DOS is just fine it is also fast but... I have problems calling it in my java program.?it seemed to be stucked hehe...

Thanks a lot dude. God bless

khickyphutza at 2007-7-10 11:21:48 >

> I ALWAYS use binary mode since I never ever want the

> transfer process to modify the file content in any

> way. If I want to change the eol I will do it

> myself.

>

> Many of the text display problems that are seen in

> these forums are due to people trying to use Notepad

> to look at the content.

That's fine for you, and many others. But when you are dealing with things that are purely ascii text, and one of the OSes does not use some funky character tabling (thinking ECB) then I see no problem, whatsoever, in allowing the FTP program to convert the text format to the native system.

Now adays, for most programs, the line endings don't make a difference, but a while back, you had large problems in scripts and other programs using information from a text file copied from another OS in bin mode. It was correctable by running dos2unix/unix2dos or something similiar, but it was still a pain. That is where I got the habit from, and I will continue to promote it.

masijade.a at 2007-7-10 11:21:49 >