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Rob:
I don't know how to use FTP (NIC.FUNET.FI), please send me instructions
and examples.
Edgar.
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* Edgar Estrada - Consejo de Investigacion - Universidad Nacional de Salta *
* Buenos Aires 177 - (4400) - Salta (Capital) - Pcia. de Salta - Argentina *
* Tel: (087) 251170 Telex : 65121 UNSAT AR FAX: 054-87-250993 *
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I often get requests asking for explainations of how to ftp into NIC
So here is an example session. You have to be on Internet with a
TCP/IP connection before you can ftp to remote hosts. I put in
some comments with lines beginning with #
******************* BEGINNING OF FTP SESSION *****************
FTP SESSION TO NIC.FUNET.FI
# Give the following command from your machine and you will
# be connected to NIC. When asked for Name type in anonymous.
Convex /csc/harper 7> ftp nic.funet.fi
Connected to nic.funet.fi.
220 nic.funet.fi FTP server
(Version 4.491 +mea at nic.funet.fi Tue Sep 17 19:27:0.)
Name (nic.funet.fi:harper): anonymous
# You are then asked for a password. YOU HAVE to give your
# Internet address as a password. In your case it would be
# edgar at ciunsa.edu.ar You will not see the password as you type
# it in, but get it right... failure to do so will put you
# in a "captive-login" and you cannot access the public
# directories from there. This is done for security reasons
# We like to know who has been using NIC.
331 Guest login ok, give your email address for password.
Password:
230-Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
230-There are 3 active foreign anonymous customer(s) presently out of max 16.
230-Local time is now Thu Sep 26 09:23:48 1991
230-
230- There are constant overload problems on our line to USA...
230- Be careful with "cd ..". See /README for info about how
230- symlinks might affect your view of, and movement in archive.
230-
230-We have special access features, see file /README
230 It was last updated Thu Sep 19 13:14:36 1991 - 6.8 days ago
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
# You should note that NIC is set up so that it transfers files
# in BINARY mode. This is a safeguard for some people forget to
# set ftp to BINARY when trnasferring executables, I have
# not noticed that the transfer of ASCII files suffers in any
# way if you receive them with the BINARY option on. NIC is rather
# special since it can transfer whole directories, or compress files
# to speed up transfer over he net... be sure to get the README file
# to understand more about these special access features.
# If you are interested in molecular biology then cd to
# /pub/sci/molbio
ftp> cd /pub/sci/molbio
250 CWD command successful.
# A dir will show you the main directories.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for .
-rwxrwxr-x 1 harper ftp 357 Jan 8 1991 00INFO.NIC
-rwxrwxr-x 1 harper ftp 403 Jun 19 08:11 IMPORTANT.README
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 512 Sep 10 13:15 biobit
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 1024 Sep 4 07:27 biodocs
drwxrwxr-x 9 harper ftp 512 Sep 13 07:04 databases
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 3072 Sep 10 11:44 mac
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 512 Jun 10 12:31 methods
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper funstaff 512 Sep 9 06:25 mgn
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 2560 Aug 11 11:10 msdos
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 512 Sep 1 13:36 pir
drwxrwxr-x 2 harper ftp 2048 Jul 23 14:05 unix
drwxrwxr-x 3 harper ftp 1536 Sep 19 12:14 vax
226 Transfer complete.
# You can move down to different directories with the cd
# command
ftp> cd biobit
250 CWD command successful.
# and again list with the dir command
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for .
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper funstaff 1091 Sep 10 13:14 00INFO.NIC
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 47212 Sep 21 1990 biobit1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 9655 Sep 21 1990 biobit10.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 13289 Sep 21 1990 biobit11.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 12166 Sep 21 1990 biobit12.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 14155 Sep 21 1990 biobit13.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 15947 Sep 21 1990 biobit14.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 11737 Sep 21 1990 biobit15.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 12350 Sep 21 1990 biobit16.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 45339 Jan 4 1991 biobit17.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 13730 Jan 4 1991 biobit18.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 12824 Apr 11 06:54 biobit19.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 24777 Sep 21 1990 biobit2.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper funstaff 23046 Sep 10 13:12 biobit20.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 22138 Sep 21 1990 biobit3.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 19191 Sep 21 1990 biobit4.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 10831 Sep 21 1990 biobit5.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 9331 Sep 21 1990 biobit6.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 11977 Sep 21 1990 biobit7.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 11671 Sep 21 1990 biobit8.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 harper ftp 8435 Sep 21 1990 biobit9.txt
226 Transfer complete.
# If a file is obviously a plain ascii file you can read it
# online if you say "get filename -" This will redirect the
# output to the screen. Unix machines are case sensitive so
# be sure and write the file name exactly as you see it in
# the directory.
# (That is a - minus sign not an _ underline sign)
ftp> get 00INFO.NIC -
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 00INFO.NIC (1091 bytes).
00info.nic Contents of biobit directory.
BIOBIT1.TXT Computer Viruses
BIOBIT2.TXT BIONET (What is it?)
BIOBIT3.TXT RED TRICKLE SERVER (How does it work?)
BIOBIT4.TXT Using Relay from LifeSci
BIOBIT5.TXT Using FTP
BIOBIT6.TXT ARCHIVING and ENCODING
BIOBIT7.TXT Comparison of archiving programmes
BIOBIT8.TXT Review of Current Contents on Disk
BIOBIT9.TXT Naming conventions on EARN
BIOBIT10.TXT Guide to mail gateways
BIOBIT11.TXT Using the EMBL netserver
BIOBIT12.TXT LDBASE and its use with LISTSERV
BIOBIT13.TXT Mistakes you can make on the network :-)
BIOBIT14.TXT International Center for Genetic engineering and Biotech.
BIOBIT15.TXT Introduction to GOS (Genbank On-line Service)
BIOBIT16.TXT Newsreader software ANU NEWS
BIOBIT17.TXT Bitnet for the complete idiot:-)
BIOBIT18.TXT Batch to the past ( Batch jobs to LISTSERV )
BIOBIT19.TXT Intro to ARCHIE.
BIOBIT20.TXT Intro to Freenet
226 Transfer complete.
1091 bytes received in 0.0054 seconds (2e+02 Kbytes/s)
# If you want to download a file to your own machine then it is
# good to use the hash command. This will print a # sign for
# every Kbyte transfered. Very useful if files are big because
# if there is no activity on the screen you have no idea if the
# connection is up or down.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
# To get a file use your common sense to determine if it is an
# ASCII file or a BINARY file. If it is Binary do not forget to
# set the BINARY option. That is if you have for some reason
# previously set the ftp option to ASCII. If you fail to do
# this then binary files will get trashed during the transfer.
ftp> get biobit20.txt
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for biobit20.txt (23046 bytes).
######################
226 Transfer complete.
23046 bytes received in 0.15 seconds (1.5e+02 Kbytes/s)
# The file will then be sent to you and 23 # marks will be
# printed on your screen as the Kbytes are transfered.
# To finnish the ftp session give the command bye
# and the connection will break and you will be back at your
# own machine
ftp> bye
421 Timeout (900 seconds): closing control connection.
********************** END OF SESSION *********************
In the past I have joked about NIC being the "Number 1 ftp site in the Galaxy"
When I look at the daily statistics I have almost convinced myself that
it is true. On average there is over 2000 logins per day and about 1 GIGA
of files goes out. These statistics are for ALL the /pub directories.
Analysis statistics of FTPD usage of FUNIC.FUNET.FI
Run date: Thu Sep 26 03:00:04 EET DST 1991
Data collected during previous day.
TotAls: Logins: 2288
IN: 5 files 0.023 MB OUT: 10287 files 964.977 MB
TotFinnish: Logins: 8
