Your Local Directories
Firstly, once more to remind departmental MSc students to make sure that they are in their i: drive. To do this type drive i: at the FTP prompt.
Your Current Local Directory
From the FTP prompt, type lls to list the contents of your local directory. Dept Users will find that the listing will be equivalent to that produced by the 'dir /w' DOS command. The directories will be in square brackets.
Manipulating Local Directories
To move into another directory on your local system type lcd directoryname and press ENTER at the FTP prompt.
To create a new local subdirectory type lmkdir directoryname then press ENTER.
To delete a local subdirectory type lrmdir directoryname then press ENTER.
We will shortly retrieve a file from the FTP server. Therefore create a new temporary local directory and move into it.
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