From: posze@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul J. Osze) Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon Subject: How to get the Tiny Toons GIFs Date: 19 Sep 91 06:23:02 GMT Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (no news is good news) Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 238 Now that the new season is starting, and GIF requests are once again coming in, I think it's time for a refresher course in how to access calvin.nmsu.edu's anonymous ftp site. If you are new to this group, and have never heard of toon gifs being available SAVE THIS ARTICLE. If you are an old hat at this, please skip to the next article :-) The following excellent guide is courtesy Vince Taluski. Article: 2749 of alt.tv.tiny-toon From: taluskie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie) Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon Subject: VINCE'S GUIDE TO FTP AND GIF TRANSFER Message-ID: <53598@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 6 Aug 91 02:29:13 GMT Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: taluskie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie) Distribution: usa Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 201 Originator: taluskie@donald.cc.utexas.edu VINCE'S GUIDE TO FTP: Note: Calvin as yet will not kick you off if you log in during peak usage hours (9am-6pm New Mexico local time). If you abuse the ftp sevice by doing this I'm sure that this will change. You should only ftp during off-peak hours - remember that it's costing somebody (your school or company money to have you do this). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When it says "Connected to calvin.nmsu.edu" give the login name of 'anonymous' (that's why this is called anonymous ftp) when you are prompted for a password type in your email address, If you make a mistake don't worry any non-empty string is acceptable - it is just a polite convention to tell the site who you are. If you are familiar with DOS or UNIX the rest will be easy. Quotes aren't actually entered. Use the 'cd' command to change directories. The 'ls' or the 'dir' command to list which files are present. If you use 'dir' a whole bunch of listings will appear, like this Let's pretend we are actually doing it.... Connected to calvin.nmsu.edu. 220 calvin FTP server (Version 5.60) ready Name (calvin.nmsu.edu:taluskie): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 7 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Feb 2 1991 bin dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 1991 etc drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1024 Aug 3 07:47 incoming dr-xr-xr-x 8 root wheel 3072 Jul 9 20:14 pub drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Feb 2 1991 usr 226 Transfer complete. Ok, see the field on the far left, the one that looks like "dr-xr-xr-x". That is the permissions field. I'm not going to get into UNIX permission field because all you need to know is that if a "d" is in the front then that file is actually a directory. You can get into the directory by entering 'cd pub' for example. The TTA gifs are in /pub/toon-gifs, so let's go on into the pub directory... 304 bytes received in 1.2 seconds (0.25 Kbytes/s) ftp> cd pub 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 455 Apr 23 00:56 00README drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jul 9 20:29 comp.unix.admin drwxrwxrwx 6 root wheel 1024 Jun 27 14:07 mud drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Jul 5 00:54 next drwxrwxrwx 11 ftp wheel 1024 Jun 21 15:21 rockets drwxr-xr-x 7 afoiani wheel 1024 Jun 13 16:43 sisters drwxr-xr-x 7 kfenzi wheel 2048 Aug 5 07:22 toon-gifs 226 Transfer complete. 447 bytes received in 1.6 seconds (0.27 Kbytes/s) now we want to go into the toon-gifs directory.... ftp> cd toon-gifs 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 15225 -rw-r--r-- 1 kfenzi wheel 9961 Aug 5 07:22 Index -rw-r--r-- 1 kfenzi wheel 251605 Jun 16 22:24 acmeart.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 kfenzi wheel 225792 Apr 19 06:34 acmeteam.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 kfenzi wheel 18533 May 28 18:00 all.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 kfenzi wheel 720 May 28 20:54 allinfo.doc . . . [ lengthy listing deleted ] 226 Transfer complete. 5676 bytes received in 1.2 seconds (4.5 Kbytes/s) [ note that ../directory_name means /pub/toon-gifs/directory_name ] Now we see some files at last. We know that they are files since the permission field begins with a "-" instead of a "d" for directory. There are still some directories after this one. For instance, ../viewers contains gif viewers, ../sounds contain various animation -related sound files. You are free to explore the archive. The first thing that you should do is to get the index of gifs, look that over, pick the ones you like, get them and then leave calvin. type: ftp>ascii ftp>mget Index (mget will ask if you really want to do this, if you the mode was set to binary (more on that below) you should set if back to ascii so that newline characters don't get stripped off ) --------------------- How to Transfer GIFS: type the following ftp>binary (this will set the transfer mode to guess what, binary...) ftp>mget babs06.gif (this will get the gif called BABS06.GIF, one of my favorites BTW ) mget will prompt you if you really want to get the file. Answer 'y' for yes. mget will accept wildcards like ftp>mget babs*.gif (this command will get all of the gifs that have 'babs' as the first four letters.) mget will prompt you if you want each file - if this annoys you as much as it does me, type the following command before the mget statement: ftp>prompt (this will turn off any prompting - the 'ftp>' will come back when the transfers are complete.) you should be warned that at 200k apiece this can use a ton of disk space. On my system, I usually 'cd /tmp' to the local hard drive of the Sun SparcStation that I'm on, transfer the files and then get them when I have the time. Note: If you exceed you quota on your account by filling it with +200k gifs the transfers will be interupted. That's why I use the local hard drive on my machine - no quota on the /tmp drive.... Other animation gifs are in the ../other directory If you have a file that you think other people might like to have (some kind of gif that you have drawn or scanned go to the ../incoming directory and type the following: [ it is assumed that the file you wish to transfer is in you local working directory. If you need to change directories back at your own machine, use the 'lcd directory_name' (change local directory) command. If you want a listing of files in you current local directory issue the following command: ftp>!ls The "!" says to direct the command to your local shell ] ftp>binary ftp>mput mystuff.gif Afterwards, you might send a mail to root@calvin.nmsu.edu describing what you've just put there so they can see if it is appropriate to go into the general /pub/toon-gifs directory.... That's about all there is to it. To quit and get out of calvin type the command 'bye'. ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. donald.cc.utexas.edu% That is about all you need to know to ftp and transfer gifs, enjoy... Vince Taluskie -- Vince Taluskie taluskie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Today's new word ---------------------------- Macintoshinization ps: New GIFs will be announced in this group and will be available in the 'incoming' directory in toon-gifs. This is also where the naughty pics are kept ;-) The BoingDragon +----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ( ) | "I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it | | )\^^/( | than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin | | (O||O) | | | \)(/ | "Life does not require justification." - Dragon proverb | | (oo) | | | `' | "Time is three eyes and eight elbows." - Dogen Zenji | +----------+------------------------------------------------------------------+