te's welcome.msg. Such files tend to give information about the FTP site and its policies. I'll get the file with the command get welcome.msg. I'm given both a progress bar and a countdown of the projected time left in the transfer. When the file transfer is complete, I'm told how many bytes were received how quickly (see fig. 10.5).
Fig. 10.5 Getting a file from an FTP server.
With some servers, if you want to get a number of files, you can use the command mget. For example, if you wanted to get file1 and file2, you could type mget file1 file2. However, this command doesn't work with all servers.
NcFTP remembers the directory you were in the last time you left a particular server and takes you back to it when you return.
Fig. 10.6 Putting a file into /incoming on an FTP site.
Just as some servers support mget, some also support mput for putting multiple files.
Fig. 10.7 The difference between the permissions for an /incoming directory and any other FTP directory
If you have problems with one or more of these items, check the permissions and ownerships carefully.
If you used any of the special items from the pathnames.h file, such as user groups, test these as well. If you're having problems with these and cannot figure them out, keep in mind that because you installed the server, you have access to the manual pages.
There is an X-Windows FTP client called xftp. You can find it through a Web search using Netscape. It should be available at sunsite.unc.edu and its mirrors.
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