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facftdownload

facftdownload


Purpose
Download a file from the remote path to a local file
Synopsis
procedure facftdownload(remote_path:string, local_file:string)
Arguments
remote_path 
The path of the remote file to download, e.g. "/MyFolder/MyFile.txt"
local_file 
The filename of the local file to which to write the downloaded data.
Example
facftdownload("/MyFolder/MyFile.txt","MyFile.txt")
Further information
1. The local filename can reference an IO driver in the usual Mosel fashion, e.g. "mmsystem.text:MyFileContent"
2. If the remote file does not exist, the package will raise an IO error.
3. If a network error occurs during file download, the package will raise an IO error. Note that in this case, an incomplete file data may have been written to local_file.
4. When used from a DMP component with preconfigured FAC File Transfer Service credentials, this function will automatically try to login to the FAC File Transfer Service if you are not already logged in.