HND CSYS1051

Getting Files via FTP

These indexes are maintained on special Archie servers located around the world.  You need to know part of a file's name.  Wild cards can be used if the full name is not known.

A typical Archie server is  Rutgers University which can be accessed by typing the URL  http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/htbin/archie, in the browser location box.

Archie is great if you know anything about the name of the file that you are looking for.  But what if you are looking for a file by a particular category which could be called almost anything?  The Internet provides search facilities for this situation.  Most browsers allow the user to access large search engines such as  Yahoo

•   ftp://isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-retrieval.txt provides instructions on locating and downloading RFCs.

•  ftp://isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt  contains short descriptions of all the RFCs that currently exist.