Ftp question : TCL

I am getting the following error from the ftp package found in
tcllib. I am connected to the Internet and can open an Ftp session
froma graphical ftp client: I am on Windows XP.


I am new to ftp so I am not sure if this is a genuine connection time
out issue or a bug?


% package require ftp
2.4.8
% package require ftp::geturl
0.2.1
% set f [ftp::Open ftp://my-ftp-server $username $passwd]
error error | E: Service not available!:
error can't read "ftp(DummySock)": no such element in array
error while executing
error "close $ftp(DummySock)"
error error | E: Not connected!:
error can't read "ftp(DummySock)": no such element in array
error while executing
error "close $ftp(DummySock)"
-1


Another time, it just returned 0 with no handles. Documentation
indicates that this means success. How do I get at the handle?

newtophp2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am getting the following error from the ftp package found in
> tcllib. I am connected to the Internet and can open an Ftp session
> froma graphical ftp client: I am on Windows XP.
>
>
> I am new to ftp so I am not sure if this is a genuine connection time
> out issue or a bug?
>
>
> % package require ftp
> 2.4.8
> % package require ftp::geturl
> 0.2.1
> % set f [ftp::Open ftp://my-ftp-server $username $passwd]

this should be:
set f [ftp::Open my-fwp-server $username $passwd]

> error error | E: Service not available!:
> error can't read "ftp(DummySock)": no such element in array
> error while executing
> error "close $ftp(DummySock)"
> error error | E: Not connected!:
> error can't read "ftp(DummySock)": no such element in array
> error while executing
> error "close $ftp(DummySock)"
> -1
>
>
> Another time, it just returned 0 with no handles. Documentation
> indicates that this means success. How do I get at the handle?
>
>
>


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On Jan 25, 3:30 pm, "Gerald W. Lester" <Gerald.Les...@cox.net> wrote:
> > % set f [ftp::Openftp://my-ftp-server$username $passwd]
>
> this should be:
> set f [ftp::Open my-fwp-server $username $passwd]
>



Thank you! That helped.


I noticed a couple of things:

1) This always returns an error instead of an empty list. The file
named "index.html" is a file not a directory so the pattern should not
match any files.


% set p [ftp::NList 1 index.html/*]
error error | E: Error getting directory listing!:
error can't read "ftp(SourceCI)": no such element in array
error while executing
error "close $ftp(SourceCI)"


2) This prints out the files but does not return them in a list so I
can use it:

% set p [ftp::List 1]

<<<<prints out a list of files in ls-l mode <<<<<<<

However, the variable "p" remains empty.

On Jan 25, 9:53 pm, newtophp2...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Jan 25, 3:30 pm, "Gerald W. Lester" <Gerald.Les...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > > % set f [ftp::Openftp://my-ftp-server$username$passwd]
>
> > this should be:
> > set f [ftp::Open my-fwp-server $username $passwd]
>
> Thank you! That helped.
>
> I noticed a couple of things:
>
> 1) This always returns an error instead of an empty list. The file
> named "index.html" is a file not a directory so the pattern should not
> match any files.
>
> % set p [ftp::NList 1 index.html/*]
> error error | E: Error getting directory listing!:
> error can't read "ftp(SourceCI)": no such element in array
> error while executing
> error "close $ftp(SourceCI)"
>
> 2) This prints out the files but does not return them in a list so I
> can use it:
>
> % set p [ftp::List 1]
>
> <<<<prints out a list of files in ls-l mode <<<<<<<
>
> However, the variable "p" remains empty.

Are you running this from TkCon? Because the ftp package changes the
way List displays it output when run from TkCon (which is silly if you
ask me). You can still use ftp::List_org.

Mark

On Jan 25, 4:11 pm, Mark Janssen <mpc.jans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you running this from TkCon? Because the ftp package changes the
> way List displays it output when run from TkCon (which is silly if you
> ask me). You can still use ftp::List_org.

How interesting! Yes, I just confirmed it. When I run it from Wish,
everything is fine.

Thanks for the tip!


By the way, what is the proper way of disconnecting? I am using
"ftp::Close 1" where 1 is the id I get from ftp::Open. It just hangs
there causing my PC to work up. AFter several minutes, I have to stop
it from the windows task manager.