Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!ken From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ftp? Message-ID: <1989Sep23.021107.28162@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 23 Sep 89 02:11:07 GMT References: <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu Distribution: usa Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448 Lines: 46 |> I've been reading through the items on the net for a while now |> and I keep seeing the term "ftp" while I've never seen it defined. |> Would some kind soul please enlighten me (and probably a lot of |> other people on the net)? Thanks in advance! | |Someone, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! | |My understanding is the FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. |A system to transfer files between different computers (UNIX only?). No, any computer that talks DARPA protocols, specifically TCP/IP, which is what FTP on. |How it works is you need to ftp (establish a connection) to some HOST |computer from your own, and then send the appropriate commands to |transfer files to and from that host. Here is an example from Unix. Your syntax may differ. Lines beginning with ftp> are typed by the user. [ophiuchus 55] ftp uunet.uu.net Connected to uunet.uu.net. 220 uunet FTP server (Version 5.68 Thu Aug 31 15:14:47 EDT 1989) ready. Name (uunet.uu.net:ken): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password:230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> dir ... ftp> cd pub 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir ... ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> get jargon.Z 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for jargon.Z (40022 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: jargon.Z remote: jargon.Z 40022 bytes received in 1.3 seconds (31 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit Binary mode must be used for files not containing printable text. Tenex mode must be used instead of binary mode when fetching from DEC20 hosts. For further details read your local documentation.