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Automate your FTP sessions

FTP client that's included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.x will let you run a list of command automatically once you connect to a specified FTP server.

For example, let's say that you want to log on to ftp.microsoft.com FTP server, login anonymously, download dirmap.txt and quit.

• Create a text file called ftpcmnds (for example) and include following lines in it:
  
  open ftp.microsoft.com
  anonymous
  guest
  ascii
  get dirmap.txt
  quit
  
  
• Go to the "Command Prompt" (or "DOS Prompt") and run the following command:
  
  ftp -s:ftpcmnds