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Homechoice: General Questions

How do I access my free 20mb web space?

www.homechoice.co.uk

Remember to upload files in BINARY mode where applicable.

Here is a sample session from the MS-DOS command prompt. Things you type are in bold; Comments are in italics.

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

D:\>ftp www.homechoice.co.uk
Connected to http1.homechoice.co.uk.
220 muddleftpd (1.2.10) server ready. Enter Username.
User (http1.homechoice.co.uk:(none)): randall  enter your Homechoice username
331 Welcome 'randall', enter password to login.
Password: ******** enter your homechoice password
230 User 'randall' login successful.
ftp> dir    get a directory listing
200 PORT command successful.
150 Starting ASCII transfer
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   nobody         4096 Feb 11 20:44 faq
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody          326 Apr  5 23:10 faq.html
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody         8571 Oct 25 23:14 hc-meta-faq.html
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody         8698 Oct 25 23:12 hc-meta-faq.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody        13163 Apr 29 09:51 hctc.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody          245 Feb  5 22:29 homechoicefaq.html
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody          252 Jan  4 21:25 homechoiceindex.html
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody         1672 Jul 17 08:44 index.html
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   nobody         4096 Apr  3 22:46 ra
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody         4086 Jul 30 17:42 speedtest.html
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   nobody         4096 Dec 24 12:34 test
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nobody           37 Mar  9 20:30 test.cgi
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   nobody         4096 Aug 23 00:10 usb
226 Transfer done. 896 bytes transfered.
ftp: 896 bytes received in 0.07Seconds 12.80Kbytes/sec.
ftp> bin set binary file transfer mode
200 TYPE is now BINARY.
ftp> get faq.html Retrieve a file from webspace to local disk
200 PORT command successful.
150 Starting BINARY transfer at offset 0 (326 bytes)
226 Transfer done. 326 bytes transfered
ftp: 326 bytes received in 0.02 Seconds 16.30Kbytes/sec.
ftp> put faq.html upload a file from local disk to webspace
200 PORT command successful.
150 Starting BINARY transfer at offset 0
226 Transfer done. 326 bytes transfered
ftp: 326 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 326000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> mkdir test2 create a new directory on webspace
257 "/test2" was created
ftp> rmdir test2 remove a directory on webspace
250 Directory 'test2' removed
ftp> cd test change to a different directory on webspace
257 "/test" is the current directory.
ftp> bye log out and disconnect
221 Goodbye, logging out.

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