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From: tony@ais.org (Tony Poole)
Subject: Re: AB20????????????
Message-ID: <DSVCPA?@irie.ais.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 91 05:55:37 GMT
Organization: UMCC
Message-ID: <tony.675842137@ais.org>
References: <819@ra.MsState.Edu>

jy1@ra.MsState.Edu (Yo Man) writes:

>I have seen so many hackers mention about ab20.larc.nasa.gov. I telnet to it
>and it asked for user id and password which I dont have. From the articles
>posted in USENET, it seems anybody can login to it. So I got a problem here,
>right? Please help. Do I really need a password or is there any other way
>to login to it?

  AB20 is not a telnet site, it's an FTP site (well, actually it is a telnet
site, but not an open one)  Do you know how to FTP, or do you know if
you CAN?  I would imagine if you can telnet, you can FTP.  Type 
"ftp ab20.larc.nasa.gov".  This will connect you to ab20.  At the
login prompt type "anonymous".  At the password prompt type your
actual name@host (ie mine being tony@irie.ais.org).  You will then
be able to view and transfer the files on ab20.  Type "help"
for a list of commands, and "help <command>" for individual
command breakdown.  
  A couple of basics:  To recieve a file you type "recv <filename>".
To get a directory listing, the command is the same as Amiga "dir", as
is the same for the change directory command "cd".  Before you "recv"
a file however, you must type "type image" to set the remote computer
to binary mode, for file transfer.
 
Please remember this - attempt to confine your ftp times to non business
hours at the *remote* site, remembering that a lot of remote site times
are not the same as your local times.  This will insure that we will
continue to have the *priviledge* of ftp'ing.
 

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Tony Poole           Traverse City, MI USA           EMail:tony@irie.ais.org
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