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From: warren.e@pro-beagle.cts.com (Warren Ernst)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: Re: FTP sites
Message-ID: <1991May29.083631.21854@crash.cts.com>
Date: 29 May 91 08:36:31 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from gwyn@smoke.brl.mil

Hacker/pirate BBS my butt! There's nothing subversive about FTP sites and
getting into them. Here's a quickie primer, at least from a UNIX
envirnment:

>From the % prompt type "ftp location_name" or "ftp location_number". For
example, if you want to get into apple2.umich's ftp, type in "ftp
141.211.165.34".

Next you must login. In general, you should login as "anonymous". For a
password, use your login name from your home system. For example, mine
would be wernst@ucsd or something like that. If anonymous doesn't work, its
not meant for general access to it.

Use "cd" and "ls" to manuver through directories. To get a file, get into
the directory with the file and type "get filename", and it will be sent
into your UNIX account.

If the file ends in ".bsq", you must, after downloading(I use Kermit) run
it through Binscii to convert it from ascii text to something Shrinkit can
unpack, and then Unshrinkit, and BOOM, you have the file in a useable
format.

There's no reason to so damn uptight about computers. Jeeesh! The Apple //
universe is depressing enough already.

-Warren Ernst
warren.e@pro-Beagle.cts.com
wernst@ucsd.edu
        GEnie too