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From: MBramwel@business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell 519 661-3714)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: what does anonymous ftp mean ?
Message-ID: <19383@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 10 Jul 89 13:45:38 GMT
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The internet links universities, colleges, research centers, plus alot
of major businesses together across Canada, US, and Europe.  If connected
to the internet, you have access to a few pieces of software on your machine.

FTP means file transfer protocol.  You could type   FTP mbramwel.uwo.ca
and your pc would be joined to mine.  When connected, you would be asked
to give a userid/password.  The accepted standard is to create an userid
called 'anonymous' with no password.  Once the connection has been made,
I appear to be a read-only disk drive ( due to access restrictions of anonymous
).  You can  DIR or GET or SEND files or CD(Change Directory) plus a few
more commands on my machine.  Great system!  There are lots of servers that
have the userid 'anonymous' with no password.  If your software can't sort out
name resolution, you may have to give the real internet address  [129.100.22.1]
as an example.