From: zane@infopls.chi.il.us (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: FTP INSTRUCTIONS (biweekly post)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 17:14:18 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

cavasin@MUSE.CONVEX.COM (Vince Cavasin) writes:

> 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.
> 
> ============================================================================
> 
> to access lamont's ftp site via a Unix system (can't speak for other OS's),
> type:
> 
> % ftp milton.u.washington.edu
	Changing to ftp.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 $) ready.
> 
> Then it will say:
> 
> Name (milton.u.washington.edu:cavasin): 
> 
> You add the part that's pointed to below:
> 
> Name (milton.u.washington.edu:cavasin): anonymous
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^ (type this in)
> 
> And ftp says:
> 
> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
> 
> which means it wants you to type in your LOGIN name.  When you do so, it will
> not appear on the screen:
> 
> Password: cavasin
>           ^^^^^^^ (you won't see this.  Oh, and this is what *I* would type.
> 		   use YOUR OWN login when you do it yourself)
> 
> then ftp will answer:
> 
> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
> ftp>
> 
> at the ftp> prompt, type "dir" to look at the directory, "cd <dir>" where
> <dir> is the directory you wanna switch to to change directories, "get <file>
> where <file> is the file you wanna copy to your machine (it will go into
> whatever directory you're in, under the name it was stored under on the remot
> machine).
> 
> That's it, in a nutshell.  Let me know if I'm wrong cuz I haven't actually
> used ftp to get a file in a long time.
> 
> For more info, on Unix systems, type "man ftp" or "man 1c ftp".
> 
> Perhaps someone else could post a similar tutorial here for VAX and IBM users
> 
> SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> -vince
> cavasin@convex.com
> 
> From: kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J Kruse)
> Subject: Re: FTP INSTRUCTIONS (biweekly post)
> 
> In article <9203010700.AA22030@muse.convex.com> cavasin@MUSE.CONVEX.COM (Vinc
> >to access lamont's ftp site via a Unix system (can't speak for other OS's),
> >type:
> 
> [much info deleted and condensed form follows]
> 
> >% ftp milton.u.washington.edu
> >Connected to milton.u.washington.edu.
> >220 milton FTP server ($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 user
> 
> 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.
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> For more info, see news.answers.


Sameer Parekh   zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM      zane@infopls.chi.il.us
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