Re: need volunteers to write a Lisp primitive interface for the ftp functionality in wininet.dll

Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: >> For Windows, I'd suggest to use wininet.dll: there is an >> already implemented FTP there. > > is this a standard dll? [presumably] Yup. > if so, it would be great if someone wrote an interface to this, so that > efs could use it on windows instead of having to connect to a program. i > presume this is what the windows programs that do ftp that i've seen are > using. > > any takers? I could try and spend a few days un-GTK-ifying the foreign-function interface (I've been meaning to do this for a while). Then, depending on what the interface looks like (can someone send a header file?), you could import the functions like this:

(import-function HANDLE InetOpen ((string . agent) (dword . access-type) (string . proxy) (string . proxy-bypass) (dword . flags))) (import-function HANDLE InetOpenUrl ((HANDLE . inethandle) (string . url) (string . headers) (dword . headers-length) (dword . flags) (dword . context)) (setq inet-handle (InetOpen (format "XEmacs/%d.%d" emacs-major-version emacs-minor-version) INET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT nil nil nil)) (setq inet-handle (InetOpenUrl inet-handle "ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/README" nil nil nil nil)) etc, etc. Personally I'd prefer seeing something written in lisp that could be used even on unix, but maybe that's just me. :) -bp -- Ceterum censeo vi esse delendam