dunno how many have access to a *nix machine, but it has a nice bare bones FTP client in it. Ofcourse, there are a few problems with this little post..
One : Most people use Windows, but you guys have Filezilla
Two : Most who use *nix prolly already know how to use it's FTP client.
The nice thing is, though, ftp is automatically in passive FTP mode. And it doesn't auto-reconnect.
If you don't know how, just go to a terminal (windowed or crtl+alt+f#) and type
ftp username@gaming.playnow.ca 6969and hit enter. (for the anon's, it just ``ftp freespacer
@gaming.playnow.ca'')
from there, it will ask for your password. Input the password (it won't show up) and hit Enter. (For freespacer's, you just hit enter there.)
There'll be a few messages including a "We're back!!" thing. You're in.
From there, type
lsand hit enter to get a list of files and directories in the current directory.
Each line 'll look something like this :
drwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 0 Oct 05 2003 Freespace_2_VP_files
All that stuff is:
"drwxr-xr-x" This indicates that it is a directory. You can 'cd' to it.
"-rw-r--r--" or "-rwxr-xr-x" This indicates that it is a file. You can 'get' it.
From there, type
cd dir_you_want_to_go_toEG, if I wanted to go to the "Freespace_2_VP_files" dir, I simply type
cd Freespace_2_VP_filesand hit Enter. It will spit out some stuff like
250 CWD command successful. "/Freespace_2_VP_files" is current directory.That just says "It worked. You are at...". Now,
ls again, and
cd to the dir of the files you want.
Now, to get all those files, you need to make sure you're in binary mode. This is simple, too. Type
binand hit enter.
Next, you may find it just a /bit/ convenient to turn off the prompt (so you won't be bugged every time one of the segments finishes
Just type
promptand it should say that something was turned off. Now, you can grab the files. Let's say I wanted to grab the sparky_hi_fs2.vp files.
cd sparky_hi_fs2_vplsWell, there's a lot of files in there, starting with ``sparky_hi_fs2.part01.exe'' and ending with ``sparky_hi_fs2.part33.rar''. Well, we don't want to have to get all of them, sooo....
mget sparky_hi_fs2.part*.*Now wait just a darned tootin' minute! Where'd that
mget command come from?!
mget is for ``mass get''. The astrisks are special characters that can stand for any number of any characters. There fore, all the numbers will be accounted for, and so will both `exe' and `rar'. Nifty, eh?
Oh, you want to get root_fs2? You can just use the regular
get, there.
get root_fs2.exeEasy.
After that, you just wait, since it /will/ take a while.
If you forget about it after it finishes and idle too long, you get logged off the server automatically.
To exit ftp, just type
byeand ftp will say "bye bye..." and quit.
Questions? Comments? Things I forgot? This is by no means a super tutorial, and I don't know how many of you 'll actually benefit from this, but there you go.
Enjoy!
~Atal
edit : misspelled "prompt"... silly me... <.<
