controlling ftp process from a shell script or c program

[Brian Fitzgerald]

>I am trying to find an intelligent way to transfer files from 
>an ftp server to my account.  When I say intelligent I mean that

Try "expect".  The man page contains an example of how to do this.
Expect was written by a wizardly person in order to reduce such
problems to non-wizardly shell programming tasks. :-)

Get expect by anon ftp from durer.cme.nist.gov in /pub.  You also need
the tcl library, available from ucbvax.berkeley.edu in /pub.

Brian