How to FTP?

[Orange Peel]

Normally I use windows to access FTP sites however, I was watching a guy access a FTP site using DOS commands. I know the Windows way is easier but in my quest for knowledge I want to find out all the other ways. So, does anyone know the DOS commands for this knid of thing?

TIA

Slayer :)

[Alakazam]

Just happened to be here but can't give any direct help Slayer, check out the following, might be what you need:

http://neworder.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=1859

http://home.att.net/~knoblock/dosftp.html

[AmStoned]

you mean Unix using hyperterminal right? A long long time ago, I use unix to check my uni emails. Or am I aimming at the wrong cow here...

[Orange Peel]

Thanks for the links Zammy :)

Stoner - Nahh mate, nothing as fancy as Unix. Basically this guy I saw opened a DOS prompt and typed in a load of stuff to download some pics from an FTP site. Its not really that important, I just like knowing stuff. I guess I'm just a geek :)

[Cool Canuck]

Go to a download site like tucows (http://www.tucows.com ) and find something like CuteFTP. These are freeware or shareware and run in Windoz. You can upload and download FTP Sites with these programs. Might give ya some idea how the guy was working in DOS. I don't think I've seen a DOS FTP program for a long while.

[Techvillage]

Hi Slayer - yep , you can FTP form the command prompt, but why do you want to when you got so any good gui's like WS_FTP to do it? I used to FTP by command line a few years back, did it for about a week then got fed up/curiosity wore off....

[AmStoned]

WS_FTP LE's free. And the best GUI FTP prog IMO. CuteFTP's just too fruity, even by IA's standards.

[ImaginAsian]

Heck I just use Explorer to do all my FTP...it's free, it works, and even I can understand it.

CuteFTP...bloated.

[Orange Peel]

I see what your getting at guy's. I know the old DOS way is basically dead, I was just curious. I'm gonna download the programs suggested above and see how I get on.


Thanks for all the help :) :)

[lurch63]

hey stone i used that progy to check your mail, pine, or pico, i can't remember, command line checking your mail, be as techy as it is, i just don't have the time, get much more done using outlook, if only it wasn't the biggest target for viruses. cool stuff on dos, read a book on dos, the only thing that caught my interest was the ability to do scripting, question can you still write scrips to work in w2k and xp? sinc. lurch

[AmStoned]

Check my mail? :hapystone

Well, I suppose the scripts still work in XP and w2k 'cus they have the command prompt. But not really sure. Man, using Unix to check email wasn't even funny. type type type, wrong letter, damn it, type type type, wrong command. SOB, *kicks school property* Fires up IE, logs onto hotmail. :hapystone

[Darcy]

Heck I just use Explorer to do all my FTP...it's free, it works, and even I can understand it.

What?! Can you explain this phenomenon when u get a moment?!! :confused:
Yahoo (where i have my sad little webpage) is withdrawing FTP privs next month)

[ImaginAsian]

Don't wanna burst your bubble but if I think what you want, Explorer isn't an FTP host for your webpage. Windows Explorer can be used as an FTP interface to a particular site.

To get to windows explorer, the hotkey is the "window" key + E. Then in the Address line, type in FTP://IPaddress and if the IPaddress is a valid ftp site it will prompt u to login and then you can navigate the directories just like any other.

[Darcy]

You thought correctly and bubble has burst, :cryol: but thanks for the added info. :)

[prod]

Hehe this is a excessively long thread on how to use the ftp command.

answer:

go to command prompt (start>run>"cmd")
type "ftp <address>"
login with username, password
use ls and cd to navigate through the ftp server
use "get <filename>" to retrieve file
use "put <filename>" to send a file from a directory on your computer
use "help" for a list of commands
use "help <command> for help on each command
use "quit" to .. umm .. i ferget :eyes:

As to windows programs, I use CuteFTP. WS_FTP doesnt always detect the bin/ascii mode correctly.

Now, can someone tell me how to use ftp in IE?
seriously, I dont know :beatsme:

[Orange Peel]

Thanks for those commands Prod, thats what I was looking for :)

As to using IE to FTP... Basically I just type the IP in the address field. If it has a username and password it normally prompts you for them. To transfere from an FTP site I just drag and drop. Not sure if its the same to upload to one though, never had access to do so.

[TheHeretic]

Yup to upload is the same. Either you can drag and drop or Cut and paste or whatever you favorite way to move files around happens to be.


TheHeretic

[prod]

Thanks, now tell me why I couldnt figure that out :hhead: