[thelist] Unix/telnet help

Jeremy Ashcraft ashcraft at 13monkeys.com
Tue Mar 21 11:06:12 2000


>      Is there some kind of FTP capability built into telnet that will
> allow images to be uploaded from a PC (ie. from a floppy) to a
> Unix (AIX) server? A student asked me, and would rather use telnet than
> WS_FTP (don't ask me why).
> 

Just tell your student to use command line FTP from the DOS prompt. 
Open up a DOS window, switch tot eh floppy drive(A:) and then type 'ftp
yourhost.com'.  Works just like ftp in UNIX, using 'put' and 'get' to
transfer files. 

HTH

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Jeremy Ashcraft
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