How to use the Windows native FTP client to retrieve a file from Hicks' FTP server.

How to use the Windows native FTP client to retrieve a file from Hicks' FTP server. How to use the Windows native FTP client to retrieve a file from Hicks' FTP server.

Create a text file of the FTP commands you wish to run
Create a DOS batch file to call the FTP program with your script.
Run the bat file

For numbers 1 and 2, you can use notepad.

Sample FTP script file. For the purpose of these instructions, the file name is HicksFTPSample.txt

open ftp.hicksinc.com
yourUserID
yourPassword
lcd /yourDirectory
cd fh/
get full_v2.csv
quit

Sample DOS batch file. For the purpose of these instructions, the file name is HicksFTPSample.bat

del full_v2.csv
c:\windows\system32\ftp.exe -s:HicksFTPSample.txt

To run the bat file.

Start a DOS command window.
cd /yourDirectory
HicksFTPSample

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