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- From: fer@home.cern.ch (Fer F.de Jong)
- Subject: BI-WEEKLY: FTP information + AMIGA FTP sites list
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.020004.15559@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Keywords: FTP FAQ
- Sender: fer@home.cern.ch (Fer F.de Jong)
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:00:04 GMT
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- What is FTP and how do I use it
- ===============================
-
- FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, the program (ftp) with the same
- name allows you to gain access to some other machines and store and/or
- retrieve files. Normally one needs to have an account on the remote
- machine to use it, but a number of machines have a setup that allow
- everybody to login as the user anonymous. This 'account' has an 'always_ok'
- password associated with it so everybody can use it. If you login
- using the anonymous account you should type your e-mail address when
- ased for the password, this way the administrators of the machine can
- keep track of the usage of the machine and contact you when needed. (Think
- of the possibility you retrieved a file from the machine containing
- a virus...)
-
- The following lines show an example FTP session I had the other day,
- text between [ this ] are comments to explain parts.
-
- fer@home:~fer> ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu [I start the ftp program and connect
- Connected to wuarchive.wustl.edu. the machine mentioned.]
- 220 wuarchive.wustl.edu FTP server (Version 6.40 [date deleted] ) ready.
- Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:fer): anonymous [I logon as anonymous.]
- 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
- Password: [I type my e-mail address fer@home.cern.ch as unechoed password.]
- 230-
- 230- [The machine sends me some information text.]
- 230-
- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- ftp> cd /systems/amiga [I change directory to where I want to be.]
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> dir [I look at the contents of the directory.]
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
- total 406
- drwxrwxr-x 13 20007 archive 512 Jun 25 08:58 audio
- drwxr-xr-x 5 20007 archive 512 Jul 21 19:41 fish
- drwxrwxr-x 7 20007 archive 1536 Jun 25 08:58 games
- drwxrwxrwx 24 root archive 1024 Oct 10 10:06 incoming
- [The above directory is ment to put all files in you want to
- put on the remote machine.]
- -rw-r--r-- 1 20007 archive 72255 Oct 10 10:05 ls-lR.Z
- [This file is the compressed output of the ls -lR . command, you
- can retrieve this file to be able to check local what is available
- on the remote FTP site.]
- [more lines of directory contents deleted]
- -rw-r--r-- 1 20007 archive 1652 Oct 9 23:39 z_newfiles_Oct09
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 1756 bytes received in 1.5 seconds (1.1 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> bin [I tell the systems to transfer binary files, if you forget this
- and transfer non-text files the data will get corrupted.]
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> lcd amiga [I go to the directory on my own machine where I want to be.]
- Local directory now /home/fer/amiga
- ftp> get z_newfiles_Oct09 [I copy the file I want to have.]
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for z_newfiles_Oct09 (1652 bytes).
- 226 Transfer complete.
- local: z_newfiles_Oct09 remote: z_newfiles_Oct09
- 1652 bytes received in 0.03 seconds (60 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> bye [I close the connection and quit the ftp program.]
- 221 Goodbye.
- fer@home:~fer> ls amiga
- z_newfiles_Oct09
- fer@home:~fer>
-
- The most interesting commands available in the ftp program are:
- bin, get, mget, put, mput, bye, dir,ls, cd and lcd.
- Check your manual pages to learn their meaning.
-
- To transfer files from your machine (where you ftp-ed to) to your
- AMIGA you can use several procedures, like writing files to floppy
- in MS-DOS format if your machine allows you to (mtools on SUN) and
- reading them on the AMIGA using CrossDOS or MessyDOS(MSH), or connect
- your AMIGA to your machine over a serial line (via modem) and use
- a file transfer protocol like kermit or [xyz]modem.
-
-
-
-
- Sites that offer anonymous FTP access that carry AMIGA related files
- ====================================================================
-
-
- There are different AMIGA related areas that are mentioned seperately
- in this list, being;
- F Fish Disks
- B USENET binary distributions
- S USENET source distributions
- U USENET articles archive ( FAQ's / moderated groups )
- M Miscellanious ( programs / datafiles / patches / demos / etc )
- N Not AMIGA specific but interesting ( mods / samples / GIF / etc )
-
-
- All lines that directly follow another line indicate that this site is
- a 'mirror' of the above machine. All 'mirror' sites carry the same
- information, everytime something is added on one site it will
- 'automagically' appear on all other sites as well.
-
- Not all machines are able to connect using the symbolic machinenames
- like home.cern.ch, therefore the list also contains the IP-numbers (stands
- for Internet Protocol numbers) that indicate the same machine.
-
- [ machine.name (max.ftp-ers) ip.number.of.site area rootdirectory ]
-
- ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.59 F pub/amiga/fish
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 F systems/amiga/fish
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 M systems/amiga
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 B usenet/comp.binaries.amiga
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 S usenet/comp.sources.amiga
- ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9 S usenet/comp.sources.amiga
-
- ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9 U usenet/comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
-
- litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32U pub/amiga/archives/CSAA
-
- amiga.physik.unizh.ch 130.60.80.80 M amix
-
- amiga.physik.unizh.ch 130.60.80.80 M amiga
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 M mirrors4/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/amiga
- ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 M pub/OS/amiga
- ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 M pub/amiga/aminet
- ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 M pub/amiga/aminet
- merlin.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20 M aminet
- ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.59 M pub/amiga/aminet
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 N graphics/gif
-
- guitar.oit.unc.edu 152.2.190.1 M pub/amiga
-
- nic.funet.fi (38) 128.214.6.100 M pub/amiga
-
- hubcap.clemson.edu 130.127.8.1 M pub/amiga
-
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