Graphical User Interface--WS FTP95, Fetch, etc.
Non-GUI: ftp available on a UNIX machine.
Type What's in boldface.
rvcc>ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu
At the login user name prompt type
anonymous
At the password prompt, type your complete e-mail address.
You should see a message -- Guest login OK, restrictions apply.
Now at the ftp prompt type:
ftp>cd multimedia/graphics/gif/a
The above command changes directory to "a" which is located under "gif" subdirectory, which in turn is under "graphics" and the subdirectory graphics is under multimedia. Now Type:
ftp>ls
The above command shows a listing of all the files in the subdirectory "a".
You will notice files such as "animals.gif", etc.
These are Graphical Interface Format files, i.e., they are graphics. Therefore, before you download them to your UNIX machine, you have to issue the command "binary" or "bin". This will set the file transfer to binary mode.
ftp>binary
Now you could start downloading the file by typing the following:
ftp>get animals.gif
After the file transfer is complete you can quit ftp session by typing "bye" as follows:
ftp>bye
After locating a text file that you want to download type the following at the ftp prompt.
ftp>ascii
The above command prepares for .txt file transfer. A text file could be transferred by binary mode but not vice versa. That is, if you a have a graphics file such as .jpg, or .gif, or .wav make sure you set the file file transfer mode to "binary".
Now you type:
ftp>get resume.txt
Where resume.txt is the file name that exists on the ftp server and you have already changed to the appropriate directory where this file exists.
ftp>get resume.txt |more
In the above line give one blank space after get and one blank space after the file name then the pipe character immediately followed by the word more.
ftp>dir . |more
In the above line dir is followed by a space then a period then another space then a pipe character immediately followed by the word more.
At the rvcc prompt type:
rvcc>ftp rvcc2.raritanval.edu
After entering your login name and password, at the ftp prompt type:
ftp>put resume.txt
The above will transfer resume.txt file from the machine rvcc to rvcc2.
Similarly
ftp>get resume.txt
The above will transfer resume.txt from rvcc2 to rvcc.
get x Gets the file x put x Puts the file x cd x Change directory to x mput x, y puts multiple files: x, y, etc. mget x, y gets multiple files x, y, etc. close Closes ftp connection open rvcc opens connection to rvcc bye disconnects from the ftp server binary sets file transmission mode to binary ascii sets file transmission mode to ascii