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Ken asked this privately, but perhaps others are new to the
joys of anonymous ftp. Here's how it works: (I suppose some
of the ftp clients may provide the usrname/passwd automatically,
thus hiding those details from you)
The "standard" username is "anonymous" but I've never used a
system that wouldn't also accept "ftp" as a username, and it's
a lot easier to type.
The standard password is your full email address, in my case
it'd be "jimo@xxxxxxxxxx" but again, I've never used a system
that wouldn't accept simply "jimo@" because it knows where
you're connecting from anyway.
Some clients may not be able to jump directly to the file I
posted the reference to, but instead may have to enter at the
top level. In that case, you simply change directory, using
the "cd" command, to /u/j/jimo, and then use the "get" command
to fetch the file. Since a jpg (or a gif) image file is binary,
you'll also want to transfer in binary mode, by giving the
"binary" command before doing your transfer. A second binary
command switches back to ascii mode, for text-file transfers.
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>From: Ken <gtm@xxxxxxxx>
>To: Jim Osborn <jimo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Username and password request
>
>Hi Jim,
>
>I'm trying to access Gregory Woods *.jpg at
>(ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/j/jimo/gwood-equity.jpg) and keep getting a
>username/password request screen. Is this something new or have I
>overlooked the obvious? Help, please.
>
>You're doing a great job with the Omega-list, it's much better now.
>
>Thanks, Ken Jellison
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