From: cavasin@MUSE.CONVEX.COM (Vince Cavasin)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: FTP INSTRUCTIONS (biweekly post)
Date: 1 Sep 92 06:00:06 GMT

This is a quick and dirty guide to ftp on Unix systems I wrote that I will
automatically post every 2 weeks.  If you have any corrections, suggestions
for improvement, or if you would like to write a similar blurb for non-Unix
users, please send me email.

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to access lamont's ftp site via a Unix system (can't speak for other OS's),
type:

% ftp milton.u.washington.edu

(oh, the "%" is a generic prompt, DON'T type it in)

You should get something like this back:

Connected to milton.u.washington.edu.
220 milton FTP server ($Header: ftpd.c 2.6 90/05/04 $) ready.

Then it will say:

Name (milton.u.washington.edu:cavasin): 

You add the part that's pointed to below:

Name (milton.u.washington.edu:cavasin): anonymous
                                        ^^^^^^^^^ (type this in)

And ftp says:

331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.

which means it wants you to type in your LOGIN name.  When you do so, it will
not appear on the screen:

Password: cavasin
          ^^^^^^^ (you won't see this.  Oh, and this is what *I* would type.
		   use YOUR OWN login when you do it yourself)

then ftp will answer:

230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp>

at the ftp> prompt, type "dir" to look at the directory, "cd <dir>" where
<dir> is the directory you wanna switch to to change directories, "get <file>"
where <file> is the file you wanna copy to your machine (it will go into
whatever directory you're in, under the name it was stored under on the remote
machine).

That's it, in a nutshell.  Let me know if I'm wrong cuz I haven't actually
used ftp to get a file in a long time.

For more info, on Unix systems, type "man ftp" or "man 1c ftp".

Perhaps someone else could post a similar tutorial here for VAX and IBM users?

SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!

-vince
cavasin@convex.com

From: kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J Kruse)
Subject: Re: FTP INSTRUCTIONS (biweekly post)

In article <9203010700.AA22030@muse.convex.com> cavasin@MUSE.CONVEX.COM (Vince Cavasin) writes:
>to access lamont's ftp site via a Unix system (can't speak for other OS's),
>type:

[much info deleted and condensed form follows]

>% ftp milton.u.washington.edu
>Connected to milton.u.washington.edu.
>220 milton FTP server ($Header: ftpd.c 2.6 90/05/04 $) ready.
>Name (milton.u.washington.edu:cavasin): anonymous
>331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
>Password:
>
>Perhaps someone else could post a similar tutorial here for VAX and IBM users?

For IBM mainframes this procedure is almost identical.   You should
still type the same thing it's just that the prompts will look a little
different than the ones shown.    You still type in:
FTP MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU        (case is not important)
first prompt will be something like:
USER:
to which you will respond with:
ANONYMOUS
it will then say
Guest login ok, send ident as password.
then just type in your userid  (it really doesn't matter what you type
here, but I put in my userid just to be nice to organization.)
Then just use the DIR commands to list files and directories.  Notice
that directory entries first letter on far left is a "d".   Then just
pick the directory you want to change to and type in CD <dirname> so
in this case i believe you'll want to type in:
CD PUB
CD ALT.DRUGS      (i'm not sure though, type in DIR to get exact names)
then GET foreignfilename localfn.localft.localfm.

For more help just type in HELP FTP.

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