Re: ftp mget error

[Ismael Núñez-Riboni]

On 03/13/2012 11:35 AM, grigorym wrote:
> I'd be very thankful, if someone could explain me the behavoir of an Octave
> mget-function while working with ftp. Simply speaking, I couldn't get to
> work a simple example with mget(fp,filename). I just cann't retrieve a
> single file from ftp!
>
> fp = ftp("server", "username", "pass");
> cd(fp, "somedir");
> mput(fp, "sample.txt");
> mget(fp, "sample.txt");
>
> Function mput works fine, the file is being put exactly where expected.
> However, mget fails to retrieve it back at once with:
> error: __ftp_mget__: file not found
> error: called from:
> error:   C:\Octave\OCTAVE~1.2\share\

Just a though: Did you try to set the connection to text (perhaps it's 
default binary and this makes some problems)?

Otherwise a workaround: use the function "system" to call ftp or wget 
from the OS... Cheers, Ismael.