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o When you're done:
Type: bye
It will say goodbye and quit. If you just want to switch to another
site:
Type: close
You will be at the ftp prompt, where you can
Type: open ftp.wwa.com (or whatever site)
You may have to decompress or uudecode the file first. See Question 20 on
how to do that. Now you can view or download the file. For how to view
animations and color pics, see Question 21.
Two helpful things. Type "cd .." to go back out of a folder. Type "pwd"
('Print Working Directory') to see where you are.
Another thing to type is "mget" when you want several files. Say you want
all the Scarecrow's 'Galleries'. You would type "mget *Gallery*". It will
get everything that has "Gallery" in it, which will be all the Scarecrow's
'Galleries', like the GIf Gallery, Sig Gallery, etc. When it's ready to
transfer each file, it will ask you if you want it. Press the 'y' key.
How to Gopher:
Gopher is easy. Say you want to check out the Bazaar. You would:
o Type: gopher twinbrook.cis.uab.edu
o Use the up and down arrow keys or number keys to pick the menu item you
want.
o Use the right arrow (or return key) to enter a selection, and the left
arrow to back out.
o In this case we pick "The Continuum", which is #11, and press the right
arrow or return.
o After we enter The Continuum, we see the ASCII Art Bazaar, so we pick it
(it's #1) and press the right arrow or return.
The Bazaar has over 12 megabytes of ASCII art pics (in categories),
newsgroup articles, collections, information, etc. And you can view the
goodies without having to download anything just to see it. You just use
menus to look at what you want, and it's displayed on screen.
How to use the World Wide Web:
Using the World Wide Web is as easy as Gopher. For example, let's say you
want to check out the Scarecrow's WWW Link, you would do the following on a
live Net site using lynx:
o Type: lynx http://miso.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html
o Use the up and down arrow keys to select what you want to see.
o Use the right arrow (or return key) to enter a selection, and the left
arrow to back out.
You can do as with Gopher, but you can also access links to FTP, Gopher and
WWW sites. For example, there are links that will take you to Chris King's
Web archive of ASCII art, the Figlet server, the Bazaar, Joshua Bell's Star
Trek ASCII art site, and practically everything in the ASCII art world.
Important Note: You can use a Web browser to access FTP sites. You avoid
all that logging in, and there are no commands to remember. For example, say
you're using lynx, and you want to go to the Scarecrow's FTP site, you would
type, at the prompt:
lynx ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow
As you can see, it's just "lynx" plus the URL for the site. You can do
this with any FTP site, just type "lynx ftp://" plus the address/path, and
you in like Flynn.
Note: When using FTP, Gopher, WWW, or other live Net services, try to:
o Find files at sites that are close to you before accessing more distant
locations. This causes less drain on Net resources between your site
and the accessed site.
o Use these services at off-peak hours, to not slow down the official
operations of a school or business.
o Send a thank you note to the admins of sites you have used and
benefitted from. Admins are overworked and underthanked.
How to use FTP Mail Servers:
If you don't have FTP access, you can use an FTP Mail Server. There