I have no knowledge of either Ant or Tomcat other than a partner told me that both 
were necessary to download a file from his IP address.

This being said I have tried very hard to figure out how to use them to accomplish 
this. I seem to be able to start Tomcat up and shut it down (seemingly without ever 
using Ant), but the default port, 8080, causes a dns server error when I try to load 
http://localhost:8080/ . The documentation said this could be caused if I had 
something else running on that port. I don't know how to check if this is the case, 
nor see which ports I have available to reassign the default port to (which the 
documentation describes very well).

Finally, if someday I get Tomcat running properly, I have no idea of how to connect to 
said IP address to download the file on my buddy's computer. It would seem to be the 
simplest of Tomcat tasks, but I can't find a description of how to do it on any of the 
web documentation. Could someone point me there?

Thank you for your time,
Reid

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