colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) (06/19/91)
I am very new to this process and I am trying something that isn't working.
If anyone could e-mail me some suggestions or previously written instructions
I would greatly appreciate it.
Summary: I have managed, through my internet server, to ftp onto a site
with many GIFs, all good wholesome ones of course. I have
tried to obtain them, with the following results.
I "cd GIF" and get the response that I am at "GIF 191". All well and
good. I can "ls" to see what's there, but I can't find a command that
will allow me to read any file, even the README files. I have managed,
using "get" to download these and read them. I then tried "get nnn.GIF"
and was apparently successful - it said it was okay and the file was
there.
However, when I tried "get nnn*.GIF" to get multiple files, or even when I
tried to get a single gif all I kept getting was
nnn.GIF: Bad Directory Components
which I don't understand. This kept up until I logged off and then
returned. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. What am I doing
wrong?
The other problem is that when the GIF file is downloaded to my server
it is not uuencoded. My PC and my server aren't talking properly
via KERMIT, so I wanted to mail the file to a unix computer I have
better luck with. For this I thought I had to encode it. This
is a summary of my lack of success with uuencode:
"uuencode test.gif" returns "begin 666 test.gif" and then it just
sits there.
"uuencode test.gif test" produces the entire encoded gif to my screen,
but does not create the "test" file.
"uuencode test.gif > test" puts the header into the test file and
basically that is it. It also seems to freeze up the process even
when I put it into the background.
This has all been very frustrating. If anyone can point me in the
right direction I would be grateful. Please e-mail your replies, as
I may miss them otherwise.
marc colten
colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com