title: how can I save the output of windows internal FTP client?
body: <blockquote>
    <p>UPDATED: on win2k it seems it works OK. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
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  <p>MS Windows Vista internal ftp client has a strange behavior.
  When redirecting its output and error to a file, the errors do not show up there:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ftp -n -s:commands.txt host >output.log 2>&amp;1</p>
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  <p>When running it from Task Scheduler inside a batch file, I don't get any error messages if connection refused. Even if echo is on or with the -d option.
  Do you have a workaround for it?</p>