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From: sirotto@oak.circa.ufl.edu (Mike Cerrato)
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Subject: Re: FTP??
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Date: 12 Feb 91 16:45:16 GMT
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In article <8355@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>At this point, you will be asked for a user name.  You should type
>"anonymous".  When you get asked for a password, you should type your
>user name.  This makes sense.  You will then be logged on.

I use FTP on VMS and have found that you have to type USER "<username>".  Since
VMS converts everything to uppercase, the username must be in quotes if it
contains any lowercase letters.  For example to log on to ab20.larc.nasa.gov:

USER "anonymous"

>
>This sort of login is much more restricted than the normal login.
>You can run programs as usual.  There are a few things you can do:
>
>2. Change directories on the remote machine.  This is usually "cd" or
>   "chdir".

Directory names containing lowercase letters or "/" must be enclosed in quotes
to keep them from being converted to uppercase.

>3. Get a file from the remote machine.  This is usually done with
>   "get" or "mget".  Note that if you are transferring a file that
>   is not plain text, you should type the command "binary" before
>   doing this.  "Get" will copy the file from the remote machine to
>   the current directory on your machine.

Filenames containing lowercase letters or "/" must be enclosed in
quotes.  The equivalent for the "binary" command is SET TYPE IMAGE.

>           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
>           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.

FTP has a pretty comprehensive help file.  Just type HELP at the FTP> prompt. 
If you are having problems, check the Hints topic (if there is one) under the
command you are trying to use.  I hope this is helpful . . .
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