ftp command

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:03:33PM -0400, J. P. Radley, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> Dennis Malen propounded (on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:37:31PM -0400):
> | Just to confirm. Is the following line from Unix to Windows?
> | 
> | SYSTEM "ftp -s:/path/to/ftp/script/file hostname"
> | 
> | Don't I have to identify the IP address of the server that I am sending it 
> | to?
> 
> No, if your DNS can properly resolve 'hostname'.
> 
> I've never known of any -s option for the Unix ftp command.
> 
> Who told you of such an option?

Nobody.  He misunderstood someone on the list telling him that the
-Windows- ftp client had the -s option.

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