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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP sites
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Date: 20 Aug 90 21:12:19 GMT
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  One thing I can tell you, is that you won't be able to access FTP sites 
from a FIDONET server. But abyway, to contact a FTP server, if you have 
FTP on your machine, just type
ftp server.name
most of the servers (the public ones) can be entered using the login 
"annonymous" and the password "guest" (or no password). Then you can 
transfert the files you want from the server to your machine.

    FTP means you have TCP/IP on your machine, and your machine must also 
be on a network that is linked to the internet (i.e. there is a gateway 
somewhere that allows you to reach the target machine). And for the 
FidoNet, there are only gateways for the Mail and for the news.

   JNM