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Quote and SendCommand

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Demonstrate the Quote and SendCommand methods. PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$ftp = New-Object Chilkat.Ftp2

$ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
$ftp.Username = "login"
$ftp.Password = "password"

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp.Connect()
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Tell the FTP object to keep an in-memory session log
# so we can see the commands sent to the server,
# and the responses received back.
$ftp.KeepSessionLog = $true

# Change the current remote directory via the Quote method:
$success = $ftp.Quote("CWD junk")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Move back up 
# In this case, ChangeRemoteDir sends "CWD .." to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp.ChangeRemoteDir("..")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Do the same via the SendCommand method where the
# raw FTP server response is returned:
$serverResponse = $ftp.SendCommand("CWD junk")
if ($ftp.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($ftp.LastErrorText)
}
else {
    $($serverResponse)
}

$success = $ftp.Disconnect()

$("Session Log:")
$($ftp.SessionLog)