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| | Q23a: | How does anonymous ftp work? |
| | A23a: | Anonymous ftp is a method of making files available to anyone on the |
| Internet. In brief, if you are on a system with ftp (e.g. Unix), you type "ftp |
| fractal.mta.ca", or whatever system you wish to access. You are prompted for |
| your name and you reply "anonymous". You are prompted for your password and |
| you reply with your email address. You then use "ls" to list the files, "cd" |
| to change directories, "get" to get files, an "quit" to exit. For example, you |
| could say "cd /pub", "ls", "get README", and "quit"; this would get you the |
| file "README". See the man page ftp(1) or ask someone at your site for more |
| information. |
| In this FAQ, anonymous ftp addresses are given in the URL form |
| ftp://name.of.machine/pub/path [138.73.1.18]. The first part is the protocol, |
| FTP, rather than say "gopher", the second part "name.of.machine" is the |
| machine you must ftp to. If your machine cannot determine the host from the |
| name, you can try the numeric Internet address: "ftp 138.73.1.18". The part |
| after the name: "/pub/path" is the file or directory to access once you are |
| connected to the remote machine. |
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| | Q23b: | What if I can't use ftp to access files? |
| | A23b: | If you don't have access to ftp because you are on a UUCP, Fidonet, |
| BITNET network there is an e-mail gateway at ftpmail@decwrl. dec.com that can |
| retrieve the files for you. To get instructions on how to use the ftp gateway |
| send a message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with one line containing the word |
| "help". |
| Warning, these archives can be very large, sometimes several megabytes (MB) |
| of data which will be sent to your e-mail address. If you have a disk quota |
| for incoming mail, often 1MB or less, be careful not exceed it. |
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