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From: guerra@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Frank M. Guerra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FTP on the Mac
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Date: 27 Jul 89 23:52:34 GMT
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I've seen a reference to using ftp on the Mac and currently I can use NCSA
telnet to retrieve a file from another machine.  However, in order to initiate
an ftp transfer, I must make a connection (i.e. logon) onto another machine
before I can initiate an ftp transfer.  What I'm wondering is there something 
like a MacFTP (I made up this name - doesn't exist as far as I know) that 
allows you to initiate an ftp session from the Mac without connecting to
another machine first?  I've looked in the sumex archives and I can't find
anything relevant.  It just seems like a hassle to create a terminal session
with a machine to which I initiate an ftp session to transer files to that 
machine and when I'm done initiate an ftp session with the machine to my Mac in
order to get the files where I originally wanted them.  This requires dual
ftp transfers for each file that I want!  Is there a solution to this?

Frank
guerra@lll-crg.llnl.gov