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by **Pinter Adri** » Sat, 20 Aug 1994 08:14:57

I am having trouble ftping to a host in UNIX. I have done it before, but
I've been using Fetch recently so I have forgoten. I type 'user' and
'pass' but it still will not work. Anyone help.

Bye.

by **Bill Marc** » Sun, 21 Aug 1994 14:32:49

Instead of "user" and "pass", try typing "anonymous" and your email address.

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by **Dave Tayl** » Mon, 22 Aug 1994 14:18:01

Pinter Adrian commented:

Quote:> I am having trouble ftping to a host in UNIX. I have done it before, but
> I've been using Fetch recently so I have forgotten. I type 'user' and
> 'pass' but it still will not work. Anyone help.

The easiest way to work with a line-based FTP is as illustrated
in the example below of my grabbing a copy of the Internet Mall
from the netcom FTP archives. User input is indicated by _underscores_

% _ftp ftp.netcom.com_
Connected to server.netcom.com.
220 server FTP server (Version wu-2.4(2) Tue Jul 5 16:00:01 PDT 1994) ready.
Name (ftp.netcom.com:taylor):

Here most people will tell you to type 'anonymous', but almost
all sites I've tried also accept 'ftp', and it's shorter, so:

Name (ftp.netcom.com:taylor): _ftp_
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:

At this point you could type in your entire address, but it
turns out that there's a secret shortcut: simply type your

in your hostname from the connection info.

230-
230- Welcome to NETCOM On-line Communications Services, Inc.
230- (( lots of other stuff omitted for space reasons ))
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> _cd /pub/Guides_

This moves me to the directory I seek, then I can use "DIR" to
see what's therein:

250 CWD command successful.
ftp> _dir_
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 1052
-rw-r--r-- 1 1399 50 67252 Aug 15 17:06 Internet.Mall
-rw-r--r-- 1 1399 50 32542 Aug 15 17:06 Internet.Mall.Z
226 Transfer complete.
534 bytes received in 0.14 seconds (3.7 Kbytes/s)
ftp>

Now it's a matter of using the 'get' command to get a file...

ftp> _get Internet.Mall_
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for Internet.Mall (67252 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: Internet.Mall remote: Internet.Mall
68606 bytes received in 0.61 seconds (1.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp>

And that's it. A simple 'quit' and we're done!

ftp> _quit_
221 Goodbye.

Hope this helps!
-- Dave Taylor

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by **Scott G. Ha** » Thu, 25 Aug 1994 13:04:31

Quote:>How do you 'more' a README file directly to the screen without
>geting it first and reading the local disk file?

The ftp software that I have allows me to:

get remote_filename |more

If your ftp does not allow this redirection of stdout this way,
you can at least send it to your terminal:

get remote_filename /dev/tty

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by **Chri** » Thu, 25 Aug 1994 21:57:19

>>How do you 'more' a README file directly to the screen without
>>geting it first and reading the local disk file?

>The ftp software that I have allows me to:

> get remote_filename |more

I find that this only works with NCFTP, also, with NCFTP, one can more
remote_filename. My experience being mostly with the standard FTP
distributed with SunOS.

Quote:>If your ftp does not allow this redirection of stdout this way,
>you can at least send it to your terminal:

> get remote_filename /dev/tty

What I used to do, before I found NCFTP, was this:

get remote_filename -

That put the file to the screen, but without a 'more' option...

Hope this helps

Chris

by **Don Benne** » Fri, 26 Aug 1994 00:37:19

get filename | more
works for me.

Don

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by **Dave Tayl** » Fri, 26 Aug 1994 04:46:47

Quote:> How do you 'more' a README file directly to the screen without
> getting it first and reading the local disk file?

A common question, actually. The easiest way is to use:

get README |more

(note the spaces here: one before the '|' but none immediately following).

Some versions of FTP don't support that, in which case you can also
try the simpler:

get README /dev/tty

which will spill the text onto your screen.
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-- Dave Taylor

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by **Hannes Ha** » Fri, 26 Aug 1994 19:37:16

Quote:>> How do you 'more' a README file directly to the screen without
>> getting it first and reading the local disk file?
>A common question, actually. The easiest way is to use:
> get README |more
>(note the spaces here: one before the '|' but none immediately following).

There is a hack to allow spaces in the redirection. Use "...".
Try get README "| grep something | more".

>Some versions of FTP don't support that, in which case you can also
>try the simpler:
> get README /dev/tty
>which will spill the text onto your screen.
>--
> -- Dave Taylor

> Instant expert: buy my book "Teach Yourself Unix In A Week" - at a discount!
> send me mail with the subject "send tyu" for all the details

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