Sending Files

At the FTP prompt, open a connection to a remote machine on which you have a user account. Dept Users could connect to the departmental VAX by typing open mv3b. Use your personal username and passowrd to log in.

To inspect the directory's contents type ls which lists names only. The command 'ls -l' will not work on the VAX because the VAX's operating system is VMS and not UNIX. Can I assume you have no file named 'XXX1AGA.GIF' towards the bottom of your directory listing? Good!!

Make sure your local directory contains the file '1AGA.GIF' (DOS is case insensitive), and also specify the binary transfer mode. Send the file to the remote machine by typing send 1aga.gif xxx1aga.gif then press ENTER (incidentally VMS, like DOS, is case insenstive). You can also send a file using the command 'put' ie put 1aga.gif xxx1aga.gif does the same job. (A file is not re-named if you do not specify it to do so, eg 'put 1aga.gif')

After Sending

You can check successful transfer by entering the ls command again. If you don't want this file you can remove it by typing del xxx1aga.gif and pressing ENTER. You can remove the local GIF file by typing ldel 1aga.gif then pressing ENTER.

You can now quit the FTP application if you want to.

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