From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Vince's Guide to FTP
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:49:26 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

In article <426.1792.uupcb@synapse.org> doug.hewko@synapse.org (Doug Hewko) writes:
>From: doug.hewko@synapse.org
>
>I was told that TTA pics are available by using "ftp".  How do I use 
>ftp as it is new for me.  There is also another conference here for 

[....]

>Would I also be able to get music from TTA from ftp?  Someone 
>mentioned that he has the music from the show... That would be 
>amazing.... 

GIFs are on garfield.catt , sounds are on plucky.physics.  For further
info see below:

) Vince


Toonsters,

Now that we once again have a TTA ftp site (thanks Charles!) it's time to
roll out a guide to ftp.  I've made several changes to this doc to keep 
it current for the new site and I've also added a section that explains
how to use the .netrc file so that you can automatically login to plucky
(at the end of this file).


Anyway it's time to roll out....


                     VINCE'S GUIDE TO FTP (revised)
		

The site that currently is the TTA archive is plucky.physics.ncsu.edu
(ip address 152.1.119.67).  The maintainer of this archive is Charles 
Brabec (brabec@pysgjb.physics.ncsu.edu). If you have access to ftp you
should be able to access the site by typing (don't type the quotes):

'ftp plucky.physics.ncsu.edu'

There is another TTA ftp site for GIFs called garfield.catt.ncsu.edu
with gifs in /pub/graphics/images/tinytoons

Use 'ftp garfield.catt.ncsu.edu'

Uploads to this site should go to /pub/graphics/images/incoming.  It is
requested that you annouce you upload to alt.tv.tiny-toon so that other
devoted toonsters can snag it quickly...

--
If for some reason you can't get ftp to work using the site names you can
try giving the ip addresses...

for sounds                               for graphics

'ftp 152.1.119.67'  for plucky   -and-  'ftp 152.1.43.23' for garfield
--

Right now, this ftp server (plucky) is a Mac Quadra and is serving as a
repository for various types of sound files.  There is not enough room
on this ftp server to hold the rather voluminous collection of gifs
that have been created thanks nearly single handedly to the effort of
Paul Osze.

When you log in you will be dropped into the /Tiny-Toon directory from
this place you can check out the FAQ, the Sound Guide and the Sound
Formats guide.  The various sound files are in snds.a-m and snd.n-z
directories.

Anticipated Questions:

Q: I'm desperate to get these gifs and sounds but I don't have ftp....

A: Paul Osze has started a mailing list for those who are deprived of
ftp.  His address is posze@ecst.csuchico.edu.  Send him a mail for info
as to get on the list.  Another alternative is to use a standard
ftp-by-mail server ;however,  ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com will reject
connections to both sites since they aren't registered with DNS...  If
you are willing to spend some $'s then you can have ftp from a
commercial account.  You can send me a mail for some info on this.

Q: How do I use ftp ?  I've never heard of it ?

A: I'm not going to give you a step-by-step guide (I've done that once
before and forgot to save the post).  I'll give you a few basic
commands, you're smart, you can put them together and figure it out...

--
The remainder of this file deals with explaing how to use ftp.  Examples
are specific for plucky.physics, but usage is similar for garfield.catt
__ 

starting out:

'ftp plucky.physics.ncsu.edu' - opens connection to TTA archive site

You should get a message like:

Connected to plucky.physics.ncsu.edu.
220 Peter's Macintosh FTP daemon v1.0.9 awaits your command.
Name (plucky.physics.ncsu.edu:taluskie):
--

When the ftp server asks you your username answer 'ftp' or 'anonymous'

When you are asked for your Password send your complete email address
(example: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu)

'cd /TinyToon' - places you where all the TTA sounds are

'pwd' - shows you what directory you're in at the ftp server.

'dir' or 'ls' - shows you what is in the current directory at the site

'lcd /tmp' - makes your local directory (at your site) '/tmp'.  /tmp usually
     doesn't have quotas - so you can transfer as much as you need.
     If you run out of quota for filesystem diskspace then ftp will
     just quietly not transfer the complete file.

'lcd' - shows you what directory you're in at your site.  If you need to
	 see what in in your current local directory you can type something
	 like '!ls'. The "!" says for the ftp program to give that command
	 to your local shell.


'binary' - sets BINARY transfer mode so that you can properly transfer
     the gif files.  You'll need to use binary for sounds as well.

'mget filename1.snd' - transfers the named file to your site from plucky.
     Note: you can name several files at once or use
     wildcard characters in the filename...

'prompt' - turns off the annoying prompt for each transfered file.  Good
	 for wildcard transfers.

'mput filename' - transfers filename from your site to plucky.  Watch out
	 you will only be able to mput things in the incoming
	 directory...

'bye' - end the ftp session.

Well what do ya know, I gave out a step by step guide -- dammit, I gotta
stop being such a softie :-)

---
How to step up for autologin to plucky:

There is a file called .netrc that can exist in you HOME directory which
tells ftp what commands to give to other ftp servers it connects to.  If 
the file doesn't exist then create it using your favorite editor.

Type the info for yourself following this example (just change the password
to your email address).

machine plucky.physics.ncsu.edu
        login ftp
        password taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu
        macdef init
        cd /TinyToon
        dir

Now when you type

'ftp plucky.physics.ncsu.edu'

You will be connected and automatically logged in and placed in the 
/TinyToon directory and presented with a directory listing.

This can still be quite a load of work to type, especially if you are
a Drooling Babs Fanboy :-), so you can create a one-line executable
script called, say, 'ttaftp' that has in it the above ftp command.  Place
ttaftp in you path and make sure that it's executable (chmod a+x ttaftp)
and you can relish the TTA ftp site with the simple command 'ttaftp'


Comments/additions welcomed...


Vince Taluskie, taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu

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