Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!saturn!helios!lance From: lance@helios (Lance Bresee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ftp? Message-ID: <9207@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:23:06 GMT References: <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) Distribution: usa Organization: UC Observatories/Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz Lines: 33 In article <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes: 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?). > >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. > >I'm sure I didn't explain this very well, but I hope this helps some! > >========================================================================= >Greg Cook All good things come through chemistry! Suppose that you wanted to ftp "file transfer protocall" a file from Grape. From a UN*X machine, or other machine running ftp, you call Grape. To do this you need the internet address... ...for Grape this is 128.153.13.196.... type >ftp 128.153.13.196 you will then get a message saying that you are connected to Grape and be asked for a login name..use the name anonymous and the password "login". Then you are logged into the machine Grape. To get a file from Grape, type get. Be sure to type the word binary before getting executable or archived files. sometimes you will need to use a UN*X de archiver like uudecode to get the files into a useable format..consult your UN*X MANual. good luck. lance%helios.ucsc.edu lance@helios.ucsc.edu%ucscc.ucsc.edu