FTP

E.1 FTP

If you have an Internet connection (permanent or dialup), the easiest way to use FTP is via your web browser or an FTP client. To get the examples, point your browser to ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/ nutshell /bash/examples.tar.gz . If you don't have a web browser, you can use the command-line FTP client included with Windows NT or Windows 95.

A sample session is shown below, with what you should type in boldface.

.ps 8

% ftp ftp.oreilly.com 

Connected to ftp.oreilly.com.

220 FTP server (Version 6.21 Tue Mar 10 22:09:55 EST 1992) ready.

Name (ftp.oreilly.com:username ): anonymous 

331 Guest login OK, send email address as password.

Password: username@hostname (Use your username and host here)

230 Guest login OK, access restrictions apply.

ftp> cd /published/oreilly/nutshell/bash 

250 CWD command successful.

ftp> binary ( Very important! You must specify binary transfer for compressed files.)

200 Type set to I.

ftp> get examples.tar.gz 

200 PORT command successful.

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for examples.tar.gz (xxxx bytes).

226 Transfer complete. local: exercise remote: exercises

xxxx bytes received in xxx seconds (xxx Kbytes/s)

ftp> quit 

221 Goodbye.

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