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Starting ftp

Note that in the example ``screens'' printed below I'm only showing the most important information, and what you see may differ. Also, commands in italics represent commands that you type; everything else is screen output.

To start ftp and connect to a site, simply use the command

where hostname is the name of the site you are connecting to. For example, to connect to the mythical site shoop.vpizza.com we can use the command



Ross Biro
Tue May 23 13:39:28 PDT 1995