From: fer@home.cern.ch (Fer F.de Jong)
Subject: BI-WEEKLY: FTP information + AMIGA FTP sites list
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Keywords: FTP FAQ
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 16:20:14 GMT

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What is FTP and how do I use it
===============================

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, the program (ftp) with the same
name allows you to gain access to some other machines and store and/or
retrieve files. Normally one needs to have an account on the remote
machine to use it, but a number of machines have a setup that allow
everybody to login as the user anonymous. This 'account' has an 'always_ok'
password associated with it so everybody can use it. If you login
using the anonymous account you should type your e-mail address when
ased for the password, this way the administrators of the machine can
keep track of the usage of the machine and contact you when needed. (Think
of the possibility you retrieved a file from the machine containing
a virus...)

The following lines show an example FTP session I had the other day,
text between [ this ] are comments to explain parts.

fer@home:~fer> ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu [I start the ftp program and connect
Connected to wuarchive.wustl.edu.      the machine mentioned.]
220 wuarchive.wustl.edu FTP server (Version 6.40 [date deleted] ) ready.
Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:fer): anonymous [I logon as anonymous.]
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password: [I type my e-mail address fer@home.cern.ch as unechoed password.]
230- 
230- [The machine sends me some information text.]
230-
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd /systems/amiga [I change directory to where I want to be.]
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir [I look at the contents of the directory.]
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 406
drwxrwxr-x  13 20007    archive       512 Jun 25 08:58 audio
drwxr-xr-x   5 20007    archive       512 Jul 21 19:41 fish
drwxrwxr-x   7 20007    archive      1536 Jun 25 08:58 games
drwxrwxrwx  24 root     archive      1024 Oct 10 10:06 incoming
[The above directory is ment to put all files in you want to
 put on the remote machine.]
-rw-r--r--   1 20007    archive     72255 Oct 10 10:05 ls-lR.Z
[This file is the compressed output of the ls -lR . command, you
 can retrieve this file to be able to check local what is available
 on the remote FTP site.]
[more lines of directory contents deleted]
-rw-r--r--   1 20007    archive      1652 Oct  9 23:39 z_newfiles_Oct09
226 Transfer complete.
1756 bytes received in 1.5 seconds (1.1 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bin [I tell the systems to transfer binary files, if you forget this
          and transfer non-text files the data will get corrupted.]
200 Type set to I.
ftp> lcd amiga [I go to the directory on my own machine where I want to be.]
Local directory now /home/fer/amiga
ftp> get z_newfiles_Oct09 [I copy the file I want to have.]
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for z_newfiles_Oct09 (1652 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: z_newfiles_Oct09 remote: z_newfiles_Oct09
1652 bytes received in 0.03 seconds (60 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye [I close the connection and quit the ftp program.]
221 Goodbye.
fer@home:~fer> ls amiga
z_newfiles_Oct09
fer@home:~fer>

The most interesting commands available in the ftp program are:
bin, get, mget, put, mput, bye, dir,ls, cd and lcd.
Check your manual pages to learn their meaning.

To transfer files from your machine (where you ftp-ed to) to your
AMIGA you can use several procedures, like writing files to floppy
in MS-DOS format if your machine allows you to (mtools on SUN) and
reading them on the AMIGA using CrossDOS or MessyDOS(MSH), or connect
your AMIGA to your machine over a serial line (via modem) and use
a file transfer protocol like kermit or [xyz]modem.




Sites that offer anonymous FTP access that carry AMIGA related files
====================================================================


There are different AMIGA related areas that are mentioned seperately
in this list, being;
	F  Fish Disks
	B  USENET binary distributions
	S  USENET source distributions
	U  USENET articles archive ( FAQ's / moderated groups )
	M  Miscellanious ( programs / datafiles / patches / demos / etc )
	N  Not AMIGA specific but interesting ( mods / samples / GIF / etc )


All lines that directly follow another line indicate that this site is
a 'mirror' of the above machine. All 'mirror' sites carry the same
information, everytime something is added on one site it will
'automagically' appear on all other sites as well.

Not all machines are able to connect using the symbolic machinenames
like home.cern.ch, therefore the list also contains the IP-numbers (stands
for Internet Protocol numbers) that indicate the same machine.

[ machine.name (max.ftp-ers) ip.number.of.site area rootdirectory ]

ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	???.???.???.? F pub/amiga/fish
wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4 F systems/amiga/fish

wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4 M systems/amiga

wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4 B usenet/comp.binaries.amiga

wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4 S usenet/comp.sources.amiga
ftp.uu.net		???.???.???.? S	usenet/comp.sources.amiga

ftp.uu.net		???.???.???.? U	usenet/comp.sys.amiga.datacomm

amiga.physik.unizh.ch	130.60.80.80  M amix

amiga.physik.unizh.ch	130.60.80.80  M amiga
wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4 M mirrors4/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga
ftp.luth.se		130.240.18.2  M pub/OS/amiga
ftp.uni-kl.de		131.246.9.95  M pub/amiga/aminet
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de	130.149.17.7  M pub/amiga/aminet
merlin.etsu.edu		192.43.199.20 M aminet
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	???.???.???.? M pub/amiga/aminet

wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4 N graphics/gif

guitar.oit.unc.edu	???.???.???.? M pub/amiga

nic.funet.fi (38)	128.214.6.100 M pub/amiga

hubcap.clemson.edu	130.127.8.1   M pub/amiga

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