Re: Downloading files from FTP sites

[schaf@meadow.muc.de (Soenke Behrens)]

Colby Pederson (colbyp@pro-freedom.van.wa.us) wrote:
: I am relatively new to using this Conference System on this BBS.  I have
: noticed that many people have posted articles in which they have placed
: files for downloading at different FTP sites, like brownvm.brown.edu and
: cco.caltech.edu.  The problem is that I don't know how to hook up to these
: sites in order to download them.  Do I have to call another Apple BBS in a

Ok. First, get some thing that explains InterNet ... Zen and The Art of
InterNet would do nicely, for example.

ftp is a service that is part of the InterNet services. It stands for
File Transfer Protocol. In order to use ftp, you need INet access. In
the states, that's not a problem, I gather public INet access is
freely available and cheap over there :)

Some notes of caution using ftp: Always look around if some file already
exists locally. If you get something, make it available locally. Avoid
to get things during normal business hours.

There is also a ftpmail service, all you need to use it is e-mail access.
Make sure that your BBS is willing to let you do that, some sysops may
get angry when their users start to get mails in the MB range :)

To find out about ftpmail, send mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com , Subject
whatever you like. The message body should be:
help
quit

Yours
Soenke
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