PSESCAPE-97: FTP transfer

FTP is a program made to transfer files between machines accross a network. By connection to the ftp-server and logging in as the special anonymous account, you may transfer files to a certain directory using the put command.

Basic FTP commands needed

      cd directory         change directory on our machine
      put filename         transfer a file to our machine
      quit                 terminate ftp session

Example session

The following shows the commands needed to transfer the document named lien-abstract1.ps to the /incoming directory on our machine ftp.kjemi.unit.no. No user-account is needed, as the special account anonymous is available with a password equal to your email address.

Connect to 'ftp.kjemi.unit.no'

ftp ftp.kjemi.unit.no

the following text appears

Connected to ftp.kjemi.unit.no.

220 hitra FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.

Log in as user 'anonymous'

Name (ftp.kjemi.unit.no): anonymous

331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.

Using my email adress as password - not shown on screen

Password: lien@kjemi.unit.no

230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

Change directory to /incoming

ftp> cd /incoming

250 CWD command successful.

Transfer file named 'lien-abstract1.ps'

ftp> put lien-abstract1.ps

200 PORT command successful.

150 ASCII data connection for lien-abstract1.ps

226 ASCII Transfer complete.

local: lien-abstract1.ps remote: lien-abstract1.ps

125985 bytes sent in 0.52 seconds (2.4e+02 Kbytes/s)

Exit ftp

ftp> quit

221 Goodbye.

pseadm@kjemi.unit.no

Last modified: Wed Mar 27 11:02:23 MET 1996