On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:06:24 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 02:09:34 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
>> Hi Glenn, >> I can live with Arachne not able to delete an FTP file... but >> it would be nice to know how to activate the other functions like: >> LIST >> UPLOAD >> DOWNLOAD >> They are built in... nice, but how to activate? > They happen 'automatically' when we vist an FTP site. > ie: Visit ftp://ftp.lineo.com/ > These 4 commands are sent via 'built-in ftp' > 1) USER (anonymous) > 2) PASS (your email address) > 3) TYPE A (set transfer type to ASCII) > 4) LIST (to list the directory contents of /) > Now, link to the "pub" directory. > 1) USER (anonymous) > 2) PASS (your email address) > 3) CWD (change directories to /pub/) > 4) TYPE A (set transfer type to ASCII) > 5) LIST (to list the directory contents of /pub/) > Link to 'README' > 1) USER (anonymous) > 2) PASS (your email address) > 3) TYPE A (set transfer type to ASCII) > 4) RETR (to download README) > Link on-through to.... > ftp://ftp.lineo.com:21/pub/downloads/smea/sharp_lh79520_embedix_bdk.iso > 1) USER (anonymous) > 2) PASS (your email address) > 3) TYPE I (set transfer type to BINARY) > 4) RETR (to download the ISO CDROM image) Oops.... I missed a step. :( Add "QUIT" as the last step for each of the above cases. (the last one becomes) 1) USER (anonymous) 2) PASS (your email address) 3) TYPE I (set transfer type to BINARY) 4) RETR (to download the ISO CDROM image) 5) QUIT -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/
