126Appendix C: Using FTP

2You have completed this procedure.

Tutorial: moving files

This section provides a set of procedures to move files between a remote host and the DMS-100 switch which is the local host. It describes the command lines for the following FTP operations:

setting file type to ASCII

moving an ASCII file from the remote host to local host

moving an ASCII file from the local host to remote host

setting file type to binary

moving a binary file from remote host to local host

Procedure 5 Copying ASCII files to and from the remote host

Step Action

1Establish an FTP session and determine your location as described in procedure 1 in this appendix.

2Determine the next step.

If the file

Do

 

 

is not on the current

step 3

remote directory

 

 

 

is on the current

step 4

remote directory

 

 

 

3Change directory on the remote host by typing ftp> cd path_name

and pressing the Enter key.

where

 

path_name

is a valid directory path

Example:

 

ftp> cd ‘/team/bin’

Example of a MAP response:

250 CWD command successful.

4Set the file type to ASCII by typing ftp> ascii

and pressing the Enter key. Example of a MAP response:

200 Type set to A.

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