FTP Question

[sol gongola]

NO! That is not what FTP does.

You can have a program or daemon or recurring batch running that 
checks for the presence of a file and if the file is present,
spawn the desired program (with the sent file as input?)

good luck
sol gongola
adl data systems inc
dobbs ferry, NY

Naveed Ahmed wrote:
> 
> Forgive me, not SAMBA related, but I can't find a better place to ask.
> 
> I have a question regarding FTP.
> 
> Is it possible to run a program when you are connected to a host computer
> via FTP? i.e. I connect from PC to VAX via FTP, then spawn a process at VAX?
> 
> Regards,
> Naveed