Files may be obtained with the FTP program in conjunction with an ANONYMOUS login. Versions of the FTP program may vary from system to system, so the commands shown in this example may need to be modified to work on your system. % ftp nic.funet.fi <== Use the FTP program to connect to nic.funet.fi Connected to nic.funet.fi 220 nic.funet.fi FTP server (Version 4.471 Feb 21 19:27:02 EET) ready. The system should respond with a message to indicate that a connection has been made. Users on a Unix system will probably be prompted for a login name. Type in "anonymous" as in the example below: Name (nic.funet.fi:user): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident (your email address) as password. Password: <== Type in at the password prompt Other systems may require the use of a "login" or "user" command to send the username to the server computer. Users unsure of the command should contact a local site representative for the specific commands. After the username and password are sent to the system, a message to indicate that the login has been made successfully should appear: 230-Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. 230-Local time is now Sat May 11 11:42:12 1991 230-There are constant overload problems on our line to USA... 230- Be careful with "cd ..". See /README for info about how 230- symlinks might affect your view of, and movement in archive. 230-We have special access features, see file /README 230 It was last updated Thu Feb 21 19:30:35 1991 - 78.6 days ago ftp> The user then connects to the directory in which the document to be retrieved resides. This is done with the cd command: ftp> cd pub/misc/computer-english 250 CWD command successful. The user should now be connected to the computer-english directory. The "dir" or "ls" command will list the files available in this directory. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for . *** At this point a list of the files in the directory should appear ** 226 Transfer completed. The "get" command will get any file in the directory. ftp> get 1-Introduction.tex 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 1-Introduction.tex (4482 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 4482 bytes received in 2 seconds (2.2 Kbytes/s) The "quit" command leaves the FTP program. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye.