This is the Computing Service local archive and is well worth investigating before searching outside. Interactive telnet sessions at the archive site Use the telnet program to access the remote site. Depending on the particular site visited, you may then receive instructions on how to login, get help and how to find your way around, using an interactive program with a small number of commands. Once you have logged on to your chosen site, you may be pointed to a form of online help such as a help or readme file aimed at telling the first time user how the ftp archive is organized. Some sites give very little help, leaving you to resort to browsing through the directory levels and using the ls command to give a directory of the contents, examining any file that has a name including words like index or readme .
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Connected to UNIX.hensa.ac.uk. Having transferred the file to your own machine with binary-mode ftp , the procedure would be to use the uncompress command followed by tar . At this stage you would need to examine the files, looking for further instructions on actually installing the software. Interactive ftp sessions at the archive site Check that the remote machine allows anonymous ftp . You should not try to get files from systems which have not advertised the availability of an anonymous ftp service.