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Hi ! On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, wrote: > The FAQ is built by volunteers who have done the things that are > written about. > > So far, no volunteers involved with Userhelp has FTP'ed into their > accounts. If you know of someone who has done this successfully, have > them write up a procedure email and send it to me and I will put it in > the FAQ. > > Until we have someone who does it, it's anyone's guess on the > procedure necessary. O.K. Since there's nothing available I wrote up some quick documentation (and a sample login) and installed it the Helpdesk FAQ's. It's located at: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Help/FAQ/Infofiles/FTP For those who may be interested I include a copy below. Cheers! Chris - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FTP, an acronym for File Transfer Protocol, is a client-server protocol which allows one to transfer files between two computers. This information can be either text (ASCII) or binary in form. In the same way that browsers are the client applications that allow you to work on the World Wide Web, there are client programs like Fetch and Anarchie that allow you to carry out operations using FTP protocols. On the Chebucto Community Net you can use FTP to move files in and out of your private home directory (i.e. the one reached when you type 'g files') and any subdirectories of it such as your public_html directory. This is the one reached by the URL http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~login/ (where login= your login ID). To do so one simply FTP's to 'chebucto.ns.ca' just like you would FTP to anywhere else on the Internet using whatever FTP client programs you normally use (Fetch, FTP through a shell account, etc.). Enter your own login and password when prompted and you will be taken directly to your own home directory. From there 'get' (i.e. retrieve) or 'put' (i.e. deposit) files to or from the directory according to the way your FTP client works. This is useful for Information Providers (IP) editors (and others) who want to FTP files from other servers to the CCN. From their own file directory they then follow CCN file installation procedures to move the files to their IP directories. Note that the CCN does not support anonymous FTP nor (at the moment) is it possible to FTP directly to Information Provider directories. Doing so confounds the RCS (Revision Control System) that manages file-editing and revisions in IP directories. This is, however, something that we are currently working to implement and we hope to be able to provide this functionality to our Information Providers in the near future. Following is a log of an FTP transaction (from a shell account) which went to the home directory of user aa12x; logged in; ascertained what files were present; retrieved the file 'signature'; and then exited FTP. '?' will give you a list of FTP commands on most systems. The FTP prompt is indicated by ftp>. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $ ftp ftp> open chebucto.ns.ca Connected to chebucto.ns.ca. 220 chebucto.ns.ca FTP server (Version wu-2.4(29) Sat Jan 4 20:25:59 AST 1997) ready. Name (chebucto.ns.ca:querty): aa12x 331 Password required for aa12x. Password: 230 User aa12x logged in. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/5bin/ls. total 58 drwx------ 2 aa051 http 512 Dec 2 1996 Mail drwx------ 2 aa051 http 512 Oct 25 1997 News -rw-r--r-- 1 aa051 http 3567 Jun 23 11:25 lynx_bookmarks.html drwx------ 2 aa051 http 512 Jul 9 15:40 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 aa051 http 1024 Jun 13 09:27 public_html -rw-r--r-- 1 aa051 http 231 Jan 2 1997 signature 226 Transfer complete. ftp> get signature 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for signature (231 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 234 bytes received in 0.003182 seconds (71.82 Kbytes/s) local: signature remote: signature ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. $ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html "We have ... in this country ... far too many captive editors who cannot even be heard to rattle their chains." -- Carl E. Lindstrom _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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