Description
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the most important method of transferring files through the Internet. There are a lot of FTP sites on the Internet. In these sites you can retrieve software, documents, images and so on.
In order to use this service, normally you must be authorized. But there is a way to avoid this restriction: the anonymous FTP service. Everybody can access to files stored on hosts where this service is working, without special permissions. Just type 'anonymous' at the 'login:' prompt.
However you should respect these simple rules:
Reply to the 'Password:' query with an email address so that the sites can track the level of FTP usage. Start FTP sessions only after normal business hours for that site. Remember time zones: think in terms of the current time at the site that's being visited, not of local time! (go top)
Access
via local client, via telnet, via WWW, via email.
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Ftp via e-mail
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send/receive files via electronic mail.
Binary files are ALWAYS encoded before they are mailed back.
Commands
reply-to email-address Who to send the response to. This is optional and defaults to the users email address help Just send back help delete jobid Delete the given job open [site [user [pass]]] Site to ftp to. cd pathname Change directory. ls [pathname]short listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. dir [pathname] long listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. get pathname Get a file and email it back. compress Compress files/dir-listings before emailing back gzip Gzip files/dir-listings before emailing back part N Only send back one part (e.g. part 3). Must be before the 'get'. The 'get' is rerun but only the given part is mailed back. uuencode | btoa These are mutually exclusive options for converting a binary file before emailing. (Default is uuencode.) force uuencode | force btoa Force all files or directory listings to be encoded before sending back. There is no default. mime Send the message as a Mime Verson 1.0 message. Text will be sent as text/plain charset=US-ASCII Non-text as application/octet-stream. If the file is splitup then it will be sent as a message/partial. force mime As mime but force text files to be sent as application/octet-stream no [compress|gzip|uuencode|btoa|mime] Turn the option off. size num[K|M] Set the max size a file can be before it is split up and emailed back in parts to the given number of Kilo or Mega bytes. This is limited to 512K. Attempts to set the size to a value larger than 512K will be ignored. mode binary | mode ascii Change the mode selected for the get command. Defaults to binary. quit End of input - ignore any following lines. (go top)
Ftpmail: examples
open host_name
dir
quit
(Connect to host_name and send back the contents of the top level directory )
reply-to name@domain.it
open host_name
cd unix
get name_file
quit
(Connect to host_name and send back the file name_file to name@domain.it)
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Ftpmail servers
You can see these commands above, sending email with 'help' in the text of message, to these ftpmail servers:
Europe
ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt ftpmail@ftp.luth.se USA
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@census.gov ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.EDU ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@ftp.SHSU.edu ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.EDU Australia
ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au (go top)
Searching FTP sites and helpful links
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