FTPing

               An article from Alex van Kaam

On Sue's Comment About FTP sites.....

FTP programs these days are mostly used to upload WWW pages from
your PC to a Server.  And a FTP program like WS_FTP LE
( http://www.ipswitch.com ) is nothing else then a program that
shows you the directory on your PC (on the left side) and the
Remote Computer (on the right side), like using the old Program
Manager you go through directories (on both sides) and find the
file you want to transfer or retrieve, then you select it and
click the arrow pointing to the right to upload it or the arrow
pointing to the left to download that file.

However, if you are only interested in downloading from an FTP
site then you can also use your browser (IE 3.0) Just type in as
address ftp://ftp.<etc. etc.> and IE will log onto this FTP site
and show you the directory tree and any files in there.

Of course using your browser only works with FTP sites that do not
require a password or ID, some sites require your e-mail address
as password, so for those sites you still need a decent FTP
program.

Hope this explains it a bit, for the normal user who just wants to
log on now and then to an FTP side using the browser will do just
fine.

Some good FTP sites:

Microsoft Seattle:

This one hold more updates and patches you can ever imagine, go
into SOFTLIB for find an INDEX.TXT list and into MSLFILES to start
downloading what you want/need, give it some time because this
directory is huuuuge.


For your Web browser: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com

For your FTP program: ftp.microsoft.com
             User ID: anonymous
            Password: your e-mail address

Microsoft UK:

Lots faster if you live there or closer to the UK, This one does
not hold many updates or patches but has a very nice MSDOWNLOAD
directory with the latest version of programs (IE 3.01, Frontpage
97 beta, Direct X etc. etc).

For your Web browser: ftp://ftp.microsoft.co.uk

For your FTP program: ftp.microsoft.co.uk
             User ID: anonymous
            Password: your e-mail address


Midifarm:

Holds loads of Midis, check out the PUB (public) area, there is
also a WWW page.

For your Web browser: ftp://ftp.midifarm.com
                      http://www.midifarm.com

For your FTP program: ftp.midifarm.com
             User ID: anonymous
            Password: your e-mail address

Hope this gets you started :o)

@~I've only ever used my web brower and had enough problems with
@~that in the early days ... I think I'll stick to downloading
@~only! ... Sue


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