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Chapter 19: Grabbing Files from the Net
Overview
In This Chapter
Getting files from all over the Internet
Stashing files all over the Internet
Lotsa swell stuff for FTP
Navigating in anonymous land
Finding files by name
In Chapter 18, we explain how to use your Web browser to grab files stored on the Internet. Web browsers are definitely the easiest way to download files to your computer; just find a Web page with a link to the file and click the link.If you want to copy to or from a non-UNIX machine, however, or if you want to retrieve files from a public file archive on a machine on which you don’t have a personal account, you need an industrial-strength file-copying program. Your Web browser just can’t cut the mustard (whatever that means). Instead, you can use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) system, which is widely used on computers all over the Internet.You can use FTP to transfer files to or from computers on which you have accounts. You can also use FTP to download (transfer to your computer) files from any of a bunch of publicly available FTP servers out there on the Internet. Thousands of public FTP servers are on the Internet, each with hundreds of files that may be of use, including text, pictures, and programs. It’s just a matter of locating them and downloading them!
