FTP Exercise for PC users

The following describes the steps necessary to locate and download files from the Internet using your FTP Application. Study the steps then complete the tasks set at the bottom of the Page. If you have any problems downloading any of the files please contact us by e-mail or phone.
1. Open up the WS_FTP (PC) software supplied by Poptel, following the instructions provided.

2. FTP is CaSe SeNsItIvE, this means that when you type the address to specify a FTP site it is important to do so EXACTLY as specified.

3. Log in as "anonymous" (that is click in the circle on the right handside of the screen that says Anonymous)

4. Password = your-mail-address

5. Profile Name = some keyword associated with the file you want

6. Host Name = address of server you want to go to, to get the file, eg, ftp.ira.uka.de

7. Initial Directories Remote Host = the directory where this file is kept in the remote computer eg /pub/systems/pc.

8. Local PC = the directory you want the file to be downloaded to, eg A:\project\intro

9. Click on OK

10. FTP sites consist of directories and subdirectories, and the remote host computer have fairly straight forward ways of clicking into and out of subdirectories on the site.

11. Before you go straight to the subdirectory that you have be directed to look around at the available files at the various levels of the FTP site, you can often find things of interest.

12. When you do find a file you want, make sure the transfer type is set to "bin" for binary transfer, on your client.

13. Locating where you want the file stored: for WS-FTP users, select the subdirectory on the hard drive of the machine you are currently using, or select the drive letter of the floppy drive, where the client will store the retrieved file. For FETCH users, you will be prompted where you want to store the incoming file. Select DESKTOP to go up to subdirectories or the floppy drive.

14. Highlight the file you want and double click on it. It will start down loading.

example:
FTP nysernet.org
Login:anonymous
Password: Story@fs4.psy.man.ac.uk
Change to pub
Change to resources
Change to guides
get (something - dummies' guide, eff's guide etc).


Exercises to practise the FTP tool.

1. Software exercise
   Download Netscape Navigator from:ftp.netscape.com
   go to:pub
   go to:navigator
   go to:2.02
   go to: (choose appropriate platform) mac, windows
   select for Mac:Netscape2.02Installer.hqx
   select for PC: n16e202.exe or n32e202.exe
   

2. Articles
   Get the Dibbel article "A Rape in Cyberspace" :
   beta.xerox.com
   /pub/MOO/papers/VillageVoice.txt

3. WinZip software
   To get the WinZip 6.2 compression software, needed for unzipping the idea on-line training site:

   From:
   ftp3.winzip.com/winzip31.exe
   

   Now save this to your hardrive. When you need to unzip a file you must download the file to the same directory you have saved PKUnzip to in order to keep it in the same pathway.

   
   

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