ftp from within octave?

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Jan-2007, Andres Sepulveda wrote:

|    I need to ftp some data as part of an octave program. The name of the 
| file to dowload will be  built within octave with
| 
| aux1=datenum(2006,12,23);
| aux2=datestr(aux1,'yyyymmdd');
| filename=['rtg_sst_hr_grb_0.083.' aux2];
| 
| in Matlab there is the option to do
| 
| tst=ftp('polar.ncep.noaa.gov')
| cd(tst,'pub/history/ssh/ophi')
| mget(tst,filename)
| 
|  Is there a way to implement wget from within Octave, instead?

The next major version of Octave will have urlread and urlwrite
functions so you can do things like

  urlwrite ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README";, "/tmp/README.octave");

jwe