Thread: Pipelines - please help, 6 hours and I am losing my mind.

Good afternoon. I am quite new to C and was playing around with attempting to write my own C based program (compiling w/ gcc via cygwin) to communicate with an FTP server (FileZilla Server version 0.9.41 beta) on 127.0.0.1:21.

I can not seem to be able to read and spit out any output from the FTP server via the program pipelines.

My (what will be an eyesore) code:

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Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>


//define variables//
char username[20];
char password[20];
char out[50];


int main()
//main function starts here//
{
//obtain user input to apply to FT protocol//
printf("Username to use?\n");
scanf("%s",username);
printf("Password to use?\n");
scanf("%s",password);
//start a write pipeline to ftp from bash shell//
FILE *ftp=popen("ftp","w");
// input the user info and open connection//
     fprintf(ftp,"o 127.0.0.1 21 \n%s\n",username);
    fprintf(ftp,"%s",password);
      
      
      
      //Start read pipe: //
FILE*ftpread=popen("ftp","r");
//obtain any output from FTP//
    fscanf(ftpread,"%s",out);
  
     //Program sticks, does not pick up the ftp "bad user/password" (530) output//
     
     //start a write pipeline to ftp from bash shell, for more input if connected//
FILE *ftp3=popen("ftp","w");
// input the user info and open connection//
    
      
     //Close pipes here?//
      pclose(ftp); pclose(ftpread); pclose(ftp3);
      
     getchar();
     return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    
    




}

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Braces for n00b flame!

Thanks for any help!