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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BITFTP / FTP questions
Message-ID: <14233@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 14:48:31 GMT
References: <1442@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <1442@mountn.dec.com> shatara@memit.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes:
>
>I have been trying out the recently announced BITFTP capability to allow 
>users access to FTP capability who would otherwise not have access to it.
>
>Having tried it I now have a bunch of questions, which I suspect have more 
>to do with UNIX and FTP protocol than BITFTP itself. (I know nothing about 
>UNIX - surprise! :-) )

Hokay.  I was going to answer this in email, but figured it might be 
of importance to someone else trying this, so...

>As a test I tried to do two things:
>
>    1) Get a directory of an FTP host
>
>    2) Get a file from an FTP host
[slurp]
[directory list follows]
total 3
>-r--r--r--  1 root     200             0 Dec 22 16:54 .rhosts
>dr-xr-xr-x  2 root     bin           512 Dec 16  1988 bin
>dr-xr-xr-x  2 root     200           512 Oct 14  1988 etc
>drwxrwxrwx 22 uucp     daemon        512 Mar 12 11:25 pub
[slurp]
Now this directory looks nothing like the directory that Mark Johnson of 
>Apple puts out on the net, an extract of which follows:
>    .
>    .
>-r    13769 Feb 21 16:59 ./human.interface/notes/hin-006.txt
>-r     8280 Feb 21 16:59 ./human.interface/notes/hin-005.txt
[slurp]

Ah, nasty.  What Mark did was do an 'ls -Rl' (or similar) from the dts
subdirectory.  You don't see a 'dts' subdirectory, do you?  That's
because it's hidden in the 'pub' directory.  You had the right approach:
>    FTP apple.com
>    USER anonymous
>    ASCII
>    GET /human.interface/notes/hin-000.txt

But it's going to fail for two reasons:

	a) It's the wrong pathname. It should have been
       	   /pub/dts/human.interface/notes/hin-000.txt

	b) Even with the correct pathname, that wouldn't have worked. You 
	   need to change to the directory before getting the file. (cd)

Try this one:

	FTP apple.com
	USER anonymous
	ASCII
	CD /pub/dts/human.interface/note
	GET hin-000.txt
	QUIT


That should work.

--Chan
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