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From: v118j3ml@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Michael J Slavis)
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Subject: FTP??
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Date: 9 Feb 91 08:09:01 GMT
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Hey...I just recently started telecommunicating with my Amiga 2000, and I
keep hearing people talk about d/l-ing Fred Fish disks through a service 
called FTP...now, I've talked to some consultants at my school (State 
University of New York at Buffalo), and they told me that FTP stood for
FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL....well, this sounds like something that one could
use to d/l public domain software, but they were puzzled when I started to
tell them that the way I understood it, people logged into computers all 
over the country, went into a certain directory, and proceeded to d/l whatever
they needed.  They told me that to access FTP, I type FTP [Hostname] at my
DCL prompt, and then I would have to have an account to log into the remote
system...well, I don't think that this is what everybody is talking about.
Can someone please help me on getting started with FTP???  I'm a quick
learner and I have a strong desire to figure this thing out...you can mail
directly to me, but I think posting on this board would be a better idea
because I know a lot of novices who would like to learn how to use this
service......Thank you very much,

        Mike Slavis   (V118J3ML@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu)