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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to FTP and TELNET from home
Message-ID: <13281.25d95832@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 90 21:08:02 GMT
References: <90045.004228BSJ100@PSUVM.BITNET>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
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In article <90045.004228BSJ100@PSUVM.BITNET>, BSJ100@psuvm.psu.edu (Broderick S. Jolley) writes:
> How do you link to the FTP sites that you list from a
> computer at home?                                                  
 
I am not clear exactly what your are asking. But if you are asking how to
access an FTP site from home and then able to download/upload a file
from/to the FTP site........here is how:
 
You can access an FTP site through a host-computer that is connected to the
network that supports FTP. This host-computer is usually a main-fram system
of your university or work-place that you have access to, as a student, 
faculty or employee.                                             
You can access the host-computer from home with your personal computer, like
with your C64, through the use of the modem (of course this is assuming that
the host-computer allows dial-in access...most of them do).
But you must remember this. Your C64 itself that you are using to access the
host-computer is not directly connected to the network. The host-computer
is. And FTP is a fast FileTransferProtocol transfering system for computers
directly connect to the network; hence, once you download (get) a file
from an FTP site it will be downloaded to the host-computer and not
directly to the C64.                                         
Therefore, downloading a file from an FTP site to your C64 is a two
step process. First you need to download the desire file from the
FTP site to the host-computer using FTP, and then from the host-computer
to your C64 using Xmodem or Kermit.                 
 
I hope this answers your question....
 
Sincerely,
Scott K. Stephen