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The quickest way of getting hold of files on the Internet is through FTP which stands for File
Transfer Protocol and allows you to access remote computers as if they were a drive on your
own computer using what is known as a FTP
When you connect to HP sites most of them will require that you login - normally you will
be doing what is known as anonymously T h i s requires that you login with the name
'anonymous' - and if you forget how to spell anonymous many places will also accept ftp -
then for your password you enter your e-mail address. Luckily, many of the new FP clients
can do this logging on process for you automatically which makes linking up to a FP site
that much faster - ArnFTP and ncftp included.
It is more than likely that the first FIP program you use is a Shell-based one that comes
with AmiTCP, called ndtp. As far as Shell ftp programs go it is very good, but you will quickly
want to get hold of a GUI-based program. Currently, ArriFTP is probably the best available
one for the Amiga, but you will need MUI to use it. A good none MUI alternative is GUI-FTP
which uses normal Amiga gadgets.
One of the major uses of an FTP client for the Amiga user is to access Aminet sites. Aminet
was set up a good number of years ago, being run on an A3000, and was quickly transferred
to a University site. The main site is now run from Wuarchive in America, and holds a
ridiculously large amount of Amiga-related tools, utilities, pictures, modules, reviews and
magazines. Current Internet goers may have noticed recently that Wuarchive has actually not
being working properly because they had a major hard drive crash and lost a lot of files.
However, Aminet is now up and running correctly.
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ftp.livewire.com.au
AmETP & MIK support site
wadet.alkumd.edu
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IRC is a very buoyant part at the Internet because it allows people to
talk to each other 'live', as it were, no matter where they are. As with
FTP, to use IRC you need an IRC client, and from this you link to your
particular IRC server. Once on you can choose to join one of the
thousands of different chat groups that are known as channels.
Before you can get on IRC you have to give yourself a unique nickname
that everyone on the channel can refer to you by. It does nut
particularly matter what it is, but if you join a channel regularly you will
start to recognise other regular users through their own nick names.
All the chat channels on IRC start with if and the standard Amiga
channel is, surprise surprise, #Amiga. All IRC commands start with / so
to join the Amiga channel you type /join *Amigo. Once you have
joined, if you want to say anything just type away and every time you
hit return everyone can read what you have just said.
On IRC you are not just restricted to plain old public chat, you can
talk direct to other IRCers either using the /msg cornmand,
or can even use DCC chat if you want a more secure direct link.
It is also possible to send files between people using DCC send, but if
the recipient is on the other side of the world do not expect the
transfer to be too speedy.
A constant pain for IRCers are net splits, and when one happens
certain users seem to 'disappear' from the current channel. Depending
where you are in relation to the net split, only a couple of people may
be lost from the channel or virtually everyone can appear to go. Net
splits are just a side effect of how the Internet is put together and
some days can be worse than others - you just have to put up with
them. AmIRC is good because it can tell you which people have been
lost to a net split, so if you were talking to someone at least you know
why they have just left.
There is little IRC etiquette needed, but generally it is more a matter
of common sense, like not going onto the Amiga channel and continuously
saying how great PCs are and how rubbish Amigas are because
you will simply get kicked off by one of the rhannel opt Channel ops
are users with more privileges than normal which allows them to kick
people off the current channel and even put a j.ermanent ban on
them.
Another use for IRC is that you can create new channels whenever
you like by joining a non-existent channel. This allows specially organised
conferences to be arranged, or you could just create one to have
a private chat with someone else.
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