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08-15-2001

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Yes, let's try from your NT machine:
Open a CMD Window

At the prompt, say the "C:\" prompt:
C:\>ftp unix.machine.org

Then you will be asked your username and password at the unix machine (you have to have username and password on that unix machine). Typically they will prompt with the machine name, then
the username prompt, type your username, and then password.
If you succeed with the authentication, you will get an ftp prompt,
something like this:
ftp>

Of course when the authentication fail, you also get message telling that your name or password is wrong. If this is the case, just type in the ftp prompt:
ftp> user <your-username-at-unix-machine>

Then once, again you will be asked to enter your password.

Then you can put your file to that unix machine, say "myfile.txt". Type in the ftp prompt:

ftp> put myfile.txt

To quit, just type at the ftp prompt:

ftp>bye

Note:
There's some issues when ftp'ing files from NT to unixes, when you want to transfer plain text files, you need to type this:
ftp>ascii

But when transferring binary files, better don't forget to add
ftp>binary

between your authentication and your first 'put' or 'get'. Otherwise you may get a cluttered text files, or truncated binary files.

Happy ftp'ing,
qodoc

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simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp ftp://...  [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp  is  a perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more ftp
       URLS on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same  basename
       as on the remote; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

BUGS

       simpleftp  is  an  extremely  poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir-
       ing administrators to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
       stands out is that simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it  will  not  under-
       stand username, password, port or parameter strings.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

																      SIMPLEFTP(1)

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