Getting your files on the internet.
I use the internal Windows FTP command.

Last Up date: 2009 November 11
Page started: 2006 December 19

Presently I am writing this in hopes of getting some of my friends in Quartzsite to make use of the web space provided by the local telephone company. There are two ISP's offering Dial Up Service here. I use TDS (the local phone company) and internet with them includes 5 Meg of web space.

How I FTP .htm files to my TDS web space.

Go to the Command Line Prompt. (Earlier Windows called this a DOS Prompt.)
cd \webGets to my web pages
ftp personalpages.tds.netRuns FTP to connect to TDS
lafarr@tds.netMy email address is my user name.
xxxxxxxThat really ain't my password.
cd public_htmlRequired, you can have pages and directories here.
helpWill give a list of commands.
put name.htmWill upload the file to the web space
byeTerminates the FTP connection, and returns to the DOS prompt.

FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" and FTP is a Windows command to use this protocol to talk to a host computer.

This is essentially a terminal log on to the host. To leave the DOS "Command Line prompt" world use the
exit command.


A warning: Before you put images or other non ASCII files you must, after you have made the connection, use the binary command. This lets the host know it should not try to convert the Windows/DOS line ends in the file to the UNIX line ends. ascii is the command to go back for transferring normal ASCII files. In the world of computers: Once a convention gets established it is hard to get people to make a change. Hence, we have "work arounds" such as this.

There are minor changes to transfer files to a different web host. All I have used are simpler, than this! Your web host should give you some help with uploading. It appears that Semantic's virus software may interfere with the Windows FTP command. If I find more information on this I will post it here. If you still have problems give me a call and we will see if we can figure the problem out.

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