cthomas@f.adelaide.edu.au (12/04/90)
Thanks to all those who replied to my request for info regarding the address
of the anonymous ftp server for DNA/protein database in Japan.
For those who want to know, I include the following from the original posting.
Dr Connor Thomas
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Adelaide
Email: cthomas@f.adelaide.edu.au
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Message-Id: <9011110211.AA13371@genbank.bio.net>
To: bionews@jp.ac.nig.nigsun
From: smiyazaw@jp.ac.nig.nigsun (Sanzo Miyazawa)
Subject: Anonymous ftp server for DNA/protein databases in Japan (In in English)
Date: 11 Nov 90 00:57:40 GMT
Original-Sender: news@jp.ac.nig.nigsun
Followup-To: bionet.general
Sender: news%jp.ac.nig.nigsun@net.bio.genbank
Status: R
An anonymous-ftp server for DNA/protein databases in Japan
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Anonymous ftp for DNA/protein databases is now available at the
host name: flat.nig.ac.jp IP address: 133.39.128.2
in Japan. Available databases include
DNA databases:
GenBank
EMBL
DDBJ
Protein Databases:
NBRF, PIR
SwissProt
GenBank Gene Products
This host is connected to the Internet and therefore can be "ftp"ed from
any site on the Internet in the world but would be useful specifically
for Internet sites in Japan and other asian countries.
sanzo.miyazawa@flat.nig.ac.jp
P.S.
How to use anonymous ftp.
The following is a log file of anonymous ftp.
% ftp flat.nig.ac.jp
Connected to flat.nig.ac.jp.
220 nigs4s FTP server (SunOS 4.0) ready.
Name (flat.nig.ac.jp:smiyazaw): anonymous # Type "anonymous"
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: # Type your e-mail address
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd db
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (133.39.128.3,1235) (0 bytes).
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 smiyazaw 640 Nov 1 03:40 README
drwxr-xr-x 3 smiyazaw 176 Nov 1 03:33 ddbj.7
drwxr-xr-x 3 smiyazaw 1088 Nov 1 03:33 embl.23
drwxr-xr-x 3 smiyazaw 1088 Nov 1 03:33 gb.65
drwxr-xr-x 3 smiyazaw 128 Nov 1 04:00 gp.63
drwxr-xr-x 3 smiyazaw 208 Nov 1 03:33 pir.25
drwxr-xr-x 3 smiyazaw 128 Nov 1 03:33 swiss.14
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
remote: -l
436 bytes received in .29 seconds (1.5 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
%
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