From: urt@magi.ncsl.nist.gov (R. Allen Wilkinson x3383)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: NIST Image Recognition Group anonymous ftp site
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:02:20 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD


   The Image Recognition Group at NIST (National Institute of
Standards and Technology) is proud to announce the openning of an
anonymous ftp site.  This site contains loads of valuable information.
For example a database of hand written characters, descriptions of CD
databases available from NIST, many reports and papers published by
the group are available.

Sitename: sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov
Internet number: 129.6.61.25
FTP Login name: anonymous
FTP Login password: {your username}@{your machine name}
   The above is also known as you e-mail address :-)

   Here are some simple instruction on how to get items from the site.
An actual ftp section is shown with my instruction to you indented.
The other lines are what happenned on the screen during the section.

your_prompt> ftp sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov
Connected to sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov.
220 sequoyah FTP server (Version 6.9 Tue Sep 15 09:08:56 EDT 1992) ready.
Name (sequoyah:your_username): anonymous
   You type "anonymous".
331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
Password:
   You type in your e-mail address.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> binary
   You type "binary".  This sets the transfer in non-ASCII mode.
   If you do not do this the files may get corrupted!
200 Type set to I.
ftp> prompt
   You type "prompt".  This turns off the interactive mode.  You can now get
   multiple files without being prompted.
Interactive mode off.
ftp> ls
   You type "ls".  This will show you the contents of the current directory.
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
bin
etc
incoming
pub
226 Transfer complete.
25 bytes received in 0.0069 seconds (3.5 Kbytes/s)
ftp> cd pub
   You type "cd pub".  This is the directory which contains the files you
   can download.
250-Please read the file README
250-  it was last modified on Fri Nov  6 10:02:50 1992 - 7 days ago
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
   You type "ls".  This will show you the contents of the current directory.
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
NISTIR
README
SRD
preprints
data
226 Transfer complete.
38 bytes received in 0.0066 seconds (5.7 Kbytes/s)
ftp>

   From here you need to "cd" to the directory which contains the
files you want then use "get" any one file or "mget" multiple files.
"mget *" will get all the files in the directory.  When you are done
"quit" will exit ftp.

   This is a rough explanation of using ftp.  Please consult your
system administrator on how to use ftp if you don't know how.  If you
have any problems with the NIST site let me know.  I will do all I can
to help.

   This is a growing site.  Periodically new publication and data will
be posted here.  Stop by and check it for new items if we are working
on things you are interested in.

Enjoy,

R. Allen Wilkinson
NIST
Bldg 225 Rm A216
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
urt@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
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