I just started with Visual Basic (V6.0) and cannot get my beginning
program to work.  I want to download ftp files and store them on my hard
drive.  The example in the book uses the statement:

        Inet1.Execute strUrl, "GET " & strSource & " " & strDest

where strUrl contains the ftp address, strSource contains the name of the
file to be retrieved, and strDest is the location and name of the place to
store the file.  This seems to work okay with the defaults provided in the
program.  However, whenever I change the name of the ftp site or file name,
I get the following output:

    200 Type set to I.
    200 PORT command successful
    550 <file name> no such file or directory

The file does exist because I download it manually on a daily basis!  What
could be wrong?

Also, I tried to write my own program using the example code and hardwiring
in the file and ftp site information since this is an operation I perform
manually each day.  When I run my own program I get

Runtime error "424":
Object required

The offending code is the last line in:

strURL = "ftp://ftp.fcc.gov"
strSource = "/pub/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Databases/amdata.dat.gz"
strDest = "g:\amdata.gz"
Inet1.Execute strURL, "GET " & strSource & " " & strDest

The "str" variables are, of course, Dim as strings.

Please help!  I'm sure I'm doing something VERY stupid since I'm a newbie
but I cannot seem to find any help in my three VB reference books.  I can't
help but think that there must be a library or something that should be
linked in with my code so VB recognizes the Inet1 command.

Thanks, in advance, for any help that may be offered.

        Larry Morton

P.S.  My fulltime Internet connection is through a DSL link, which I HIGHLY
recommend to anyone doing serious Internet access.  It's VERY fast!  I hope
it isn't the cause of the problem.

Put a STOP statement in just before your Inet1.execute statement.  Move the
cursor over each variable (you probably know that this will display the
variable values) to make sure that they contain the values that you think
they should.  Did strUr get the IP address OK?  Did strSource get the full
path to file name?  Did strDest also get a full (and valid) path?

If all else fails, go to Microsoft and get the VBFTPJR project.  You can
find it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/gallery/samples/networking/vbftpjr/default.asp  It
comes with the source code.  It uses API calls to control the FTP process
(and can specify ASCII if needed - YAY!).  It is a very complete program as
is and can probably do what you want without ANY modification whatsoever.
You can do as I did and piece together (slowly) how it works and make your
own as desired.

Hope this helps.
Bill Ghen