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FT4Win.ini FTComm settings

Last updated 01/17/2012

There are some settings in the FT4Win.ini file that cannot be entered with FTWinApp, but must be manually entered. NOTE: These settings are to be used ONLY under the direction of a FastTrack technician. BAD things may happen if you use these settings on your own. A sample section of the FT4Win.ini file is shown below, showing these settings:

[COMMUNICATIONS]
MAXRETRIES=3
MAXRESTARTS=9
TIMEOUT=60
FTPTRACE=NO
FTCOMMLOG=NO
If these entries are not in the FT4Win.ini file, then they have the values shown.

An explaination of each of these settings follows:

MAXRETRIES: The maximum number of times that FTComIntegrated will try to get any one file. The default is 3.
MAXRESTARTS: The maximum number of times that FTComIntegrated will try to reconnect to the FTP server. The default is 9.
TIMEOUT: The local timeout. This is the ammount that FTComIntegrated will wait for a response from the FTP server. Note that the Server timeout is something different. The default is 60.
FTPTRACE: Controls whether every WSAPI call that the the FTP control uses will be logged. WSAPI calls are very low level, and will produce a big log file, so do not use this unless directed. The default, obviously, is to not log. The log file is FTP.LOG, and it is located in the FT directory. To enable this logging, set this to YES.
FTCOMMLOG: Controls whether every message written to the status pane in the FTComIntegrated control will also be logged to a file, FTCOMM.LOG, which is in the FT4Win directory. The default is to not log. To enable logging, set this to YES.