langev@cbnewse.ATT.COM (steve.j.langevin) (09/23/89)
I've been reading through the items on the net for a while now
and I keep seeing the term "ftp" while I've never seen it defined.
Would some kind soul please enlighten me (and probably a lot of
other people on the net)? Thanks in advance!
Steve Langevingcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) (09/23/89)
From article <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, by langev@cbnewse.ATT.COM (steve.j.langevin): > I've been reading through the items on the net for a while now > and I keep seeing the term "ftp" while I've never seen it defined. > Would some kind soul please enlighten me (and probably a lot of > other people on the net)? Thanks in advance! Someone, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! My understanding is the FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. A system to transfer files between different computers (UNIX only?). How it works is you need to ftp (establish a connection) to some HOST computer from your own, and then send the appropriate commands to transfer files to and from that host. I'm sure I didn't explain this very well, but I hope this helps some! ========================================================================= Greg Cook All good things come through chemistry! gcook@horus.cem.msu.edu cook@frith.egr.msu.edu
silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) (09/23/89)
In article <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes: >From article <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, by langev@cbnewse.ATT.COM (steve.j.langevin): >> I've been reading through the items on the net for a while now >> and I keep seeing the term "ftp" while I've never seen it defined. >> Would some kind soul please enlighten me (and probably a lot of >> other people on the net)? Thanks in advance! > >Someone, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! > >My understanding is the FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. >A system to transfer files between different computers (UNIX only?). > >How it works is you need to ftp (establish a connection) to some HOST >computer from your own, and then send the appropriate commands to >transfer files to and from that host. Just an addition here- FTP is a generally standard component of software for systems using a TCP/IP connection, not just UNIX systems. FTP is simply the accepted protocol under TCP/IP (ArpaNet, Internet, etc...) for doing file transfer through the network. +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Andy Silverman | Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu | | "All stressed out and | Compu$erve: 72261,531 | | nobody to choke." | | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (09/23/89)
|> I've been reading through the items on the net for a while now |> and I keep seeing the term "ftp" while I've never seen it defined. |> Would some kind soul please enlighten me (and probably a lot of |> other people on the net)? Thanks in advance! | |Someone, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! | |My understanding is the FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. |A system to transfer files between different computers (UNIX only?). No, any computer that talks DARPA protocols, specifically TCP/IP, which is what FTP on. |How it works is you need to ftp (establish a connection) to some HOST |computer from your own, and then send the appropriate commands to |transfer files to and from that host. Here is an example from Unix. Your syntax may differ. Lines beginning with ftp> are typed by the user. [ophiuchus 55] ftp uunet.uu.net Connected to uunet.uu.net. 220 uunet FTP server (Version 5.68 Thu Aug 31 15:14:47 EDT 1989) ready. Name (uunet.uu.net:ken): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: <any non-empty string> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> dir ... ftp> cd pub 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir ... ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> get jargon.Z 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for jargon.Z (40022 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: jargon.Z remote: jargon.Z 40022 bytes received in 1.3 seconds (31 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit Binary mode must be used for files not containing printable text. Tenex mode must be used instead of binary mode when fetching from DEC20 hosts. For further details read your local documentation.
lance@helios (Lance Bresee) (09/25/89)
In article <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes: Someone, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! > >My understanding is the FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. >A system to transfer files between different computers (UNIX only?). > >How it works is you need to ftp (establish a connection) to some HOST >computer from your own, and then send the appropriate commands to >transfer files to and from that host. > >I'm sure I didn't explain this very well, but I hope this helps some! > >========================================================================= >Greg Cook All good things come through chemistry! Suppose that you wanted to ftp "file transfer protocall" a file from Grape. From a UN*X machine, or other machine running ftp, you call Grape. To do this you need the internet address... ...for Grape this is 128.153.13.196.... type >ftp 128.153.13.196 you will then get a message saying that you are connected to Grape and be asked for a login name..use the name anonymous and the password "login". Then you are logged into the machine Grape. To get a file from Grape, type get <filename>. Be sure to type the word binary before getting executable or archived files. sometimes you will need to use a UN*X de archiver like uudecode to get the files into a useable format..consult your UN*X MANual. good luck. lance%helios.ucsc.edu lance@helios.ucsc.edu%ucscc.ucsc.edu