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Re: FTP from OR Refresh...Is it possible?



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Why don't you just learn the few, simple ftp commands that you need to 
learn to retrieve files? prompt, mget, ... etc. If you can't get rid of 
that gui monkey on your back there is always WS-FTP :-)


Cheers,

Jim

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Bob Perry wrote:

> I just got an unrecoverable "ODBC" error when using TS2k that required a
> new install.  Unfortunately, I lost all my data that I had saved for the
> last 6 months and all my workspaces.  (so much for not taking it
> seriously and exporting to a backup directory every so often.)
> I downloaded a software program called "FTPVoyager", which seems highly
> rated, with the intentions of downloading several months of the files
> from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.omegaresearch.com/pub/data_refresh/tradestation_4.0/tick_data/intraday_index/bmi/
> 
> and
> 
> ftp://ftp.omegaresearch.com/pub/data_refresh/tradestation_4.0/tick_data/intraday_futures/bmi/
> 
> in one fell swoop, instead of one at a time.
> 
> Although I can get on with my Netscape and Explorer browsers, the FTP
> software cannot, and gets a "Socket error: WSAEHOSTUNREACH - No route to
> host. (10065)  Unable to login.
> 
> Has anyone tried to use FTP instead of HTTP from the OR refresh sites?
> How did you do it?  What software and settings?
> 
> Thanks!!,
> 
> Bob Perry
> San Jose, CA
> 
>