## Copyright (C) 2009-2012 David Bateman
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function b = loadobj (a)
  b = a;
  if (isfield (b, "jobject"))
    b = rmfield (b, "jobject");
  endif
  b.curlhandle = __ftp__ (b.host, b.username, b.password);
  if (isfield (b, "dir"))
    if (! isempty (b.dir))
      __ftp_cwd__ (b.curlhandle, b.dir);
    endif
    b = rmfield (b, "dir");
  elseif (isfield (b, "remotePwd"))
    ## FIXME: Can we read matlab java stringBuffer objects?
    warning ("can not change remote directory in loaded FTP object");
    b = rmfield (b, "remotePwd");
  endif
endfunction