If you get a change check out ncftp. The shell is much more like the bash
shell such as using tab to fill in filenames. It also shows you the
download time and speed of the download. It is run on the shell just like
ftp. It also uses anonymous log and pass by default, so if you don't
specify your login, it will automatically try anonymous. Also, if you have
some time, check out mirrors.kernel.org on ftp. I used it once for RH ISO's
and found it extremely fast. It has continued to be so since. I don't know
what other distro's they have but it isn't just an RH mirror.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Smitty
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:18 PM
To: flalug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [flalug] ftp question
Thanks, Eben. That worked fine. Gosh, it's even easier than using the gui
client kbear!
Smitty
On Thursday 04 March 2004 17:26, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Smitty wrote:
> Here's one way:
> $ ftp -n
> ftp> open machine
> Connected to machine (i.p.add.ress).
> 220 blah blah blah
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files. <- if that's diffrent or absent,
> enter 'bin' after you're logged in
> if you're transfefrring binary
> files. HTML isn't binary.
> ftp> user yourusername
> 331 User hactar okay, need password.
> Password: (yourpassword)
> 230 blah blah blah
> ftp> cd remotedir
> ftp> lcd localdir
> ftp> put filename
> ftp> bye
> 221 blah blah blah
> $
>
> Instead of
>
> $ ftp -n
> ftp> open machine
>
> you can do
>
> $ ftp -n machine
>
> It may prompt for a username/password if you haven't defined the default
> in ~/.netrc . I always do
>
> bin (binary mode)
> has (show #s to indicate file-transfer progress)
> ver (turn off verbose mode)
>
> if I'm unsure.
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