We assume that a user, Mary Smith, has a new account on spot. 226 Transfer complete. 226 Transfer complete. By default, ftp asks the user to confirm each file requested by the mget command, allowing the user to refuse a specific file by typing n . These files must be renamed.
Binary mode is needed for unformatted data files.
In the second ftp session above, the prompt command makes it unnecessary to type y or n for each file. But Mary must remember to remove all but the most recent of multiple versions of each retrieved file and to fix the names of the remaining files.