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+## Copyright (C) 2009-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{f} =} ftp (@var{host})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{f} =} ftp (@var{host}, @var{username}, @var{password})
+## Connect to the FTP server @var{host} with @var{username} and @var{password}.
+## If @var{username} and @var{password} are not specified, user "anonymous"
+## with no password is used. The returned FTP object @var{f} represents the
+## established FTP connection.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function obj = ftp (host, username = "anonymous", password = "")
+ if (nargin == 0)
+ p.host = "";
+ p.username = username;
+ p.password = password;
+ p.curlhandle = tmpnam ("ftp-");
+ obj = class (p, "ftp");
+ elseif (nargin == 1 && strcmp (class (host), "ftp"))
+ obj = host;
+ else
+ p.host = host;
+ p.username = username;
+ p.password = password;
+ p.curlhandle = tmpnam ("ftp-");
+ __ftp__ (p.curlhandle, host, username, password);
+ obj = class (p, "ftp");
+ endif
+endfunction