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- From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: NCSA ftp query - .netrc
- Message-ID: <5912@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 10:11:56 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- In chapter 4 of the documentation that comes with NCSA telnet it says (in
- the section on ftp) for the -n option:
-
- -n
- Does not attempt auto-login upon initial connection. If autologin is
- enabled, ftp checks the .netrc file in the user's home directory for
- an entry describing an account on the remote machine. If no entry
- exists, ftp will prompt for the login name of the account on the
- remote machine (the default is the login name on the local
- machine), and, if necessary, prompts for a password and an
- account with which to login.
-
- I (and the person I'm asking on behalf of) don't understand this. DOS doesn't
- have the concept of a home directory and .netrc is an illegal DOS filename.
- Can somebody explain this please?
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- Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
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