Retreiving files with the File Transfer Protocol

	More than half of the bytes that traverse the internet do so
through FTP.  FTP is roughly analogous to the files section on a BBS.
In FTP, however, all the files are not in one place.  They're on
thousands of computers world-wide.  Perhaps you've heard about a
particular FTP site in a newsgroup, or from a friend, or perhaps you
used the archie tool to look for a specific file, and were given a
list of ftp sites where you could find it.

	When you select ftp, enter the site name (example:
"wuarchive.wustl.edu", which is one of the biggest sites in the world).
You'll then be on the remote system as an FTP user.  FTP sites work
on the principle of a directory structure, much like a DOS drive.
Files are typically kept in the "pub" directory, and subdirectories
thereof.  

Common ftp commands:

ls    - List files in the current directory
cd    - Change directory (eg: cd pub)
mget  - get multiple files (eg: mget foo1.zip foo2.zip foo3.zip)
page  - look at a file, one screen at a time (eg: page README).
bye   - close the ftp connection.

	Files that you transfer are placed in your home directory here
on the Exec-PC Internet Gateway.  You can then download them with the
File Transfers option on the main menu.  Don't forget to remove them
from your directory afterwards, as you have only 2 megabytes of space.

	Other things to remember are that filenames are case sensitive
(this applies to just about everything on the Internet and in Unix).
Also, if you restrict your ftp access to off hours, you're much more
likely to connect to otherwise busy sites, and transfers will be an
order of magnitude faster.

	The FTP software here normally logs you into the remote system
as an anonymous user automatically.  However, you may need to do this
yourself at some point.  Note: if you run FTP from the command line,
you can use "ncftp", which logs you in automatically.  The normal
"ftp" program doesn't log you in automatically.  To log in
anonymously, at the login prompt enter either "ftp" or "anonymous",
then at the password, you can enter your login name with a '@'
appended to the end, which will send your full Internet address to the
remote system (which most ftp sites require).
