proftpd

[trmptr]

I'm trying to put a Movable Type Blog up on my website. The instructions say to FTP some files in ASCII format and some in binary. How do I either of the two with ProFTPd?

[Gaston]

I guess what you're saying is that you need to login to some
site using ftp and download some files onto your server.

You could probably use your browser which should support
anonymous ftp by default, just change the protocol in your
browser's location area: ftp://some.site.com of what ever
it happens to be.

If you want to do it from command line on your box, you'd
do:

ftp -p ftp.someserver.somewhere (p flag for passive mode, some
firewall settings don't allow any other form for security reasons so
that your session can't be hijacked)

userid: anonymous
passwd: your email address.

to get to binary mode, type "bin"
also "cd" and "ls" commands should be supported
so that you can change directories and list files, also
you can use lcd (local cd) to change dir on your local
box.

then, once you're in right directory and you wanna
download the file, just make sure you're in binary
mode, then "get filename"
If there are loads of file in same directory, then
you migth wanna try "mget *", then you can interactively
choose which files to download which not.

Also, if you've got slow connection or the ftp-server
happens to be busy, you might wanna use "hash"
command, will help keep the connection alive and
you'll see the process of the download on your screen.
You can also download your ascii files in binary mode,
won't hurt them.
Once you're done, type "quit" to end your ftp-session

"man ftp" will tell you more.