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- From: urt@magi.ncsl.nist.gov (R. Allen Wilkinson x3383)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
- Subject: NIST Image Recognition Group anonymous ftp site
- Message-ID: <6897@dove.nist.gov>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 16:02:20 GMT
- Sender: news@dove.nist.gov
- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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-
- The Image Recognition Group at NIST (National Institute of
- Standards and Technology) is proud to announce the openning of an
- anonymous ftp site. This site contains loads of valuable information.
- For example a database of hand written characters, descriptions of CD
- databases available from NIST, many reports and papers published by
- the group are available.
-
- Sitename: sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov
- Internet number: 129.6.61.25
- FTP Login name: anonymous
- FTP Login password: {your username}@{your machine name}
- The above is also known as you e-mail address :-)
-
- Here are some simple instruction on how to get items from the site.
- An actual ftp section is shown with my instruction to you indented.
- The other lines are what happenned on the screen during the section.
-
- your_prompt> ftp sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov
- Connected to sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov.
- 220 sequoyah FTP server (Version 6.9 Tue Sep 15 09:08:56 EDT 1992) ready.
- Name (sequoyah:your_username): anonymous
- You type "anonymous".
- 331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
- Password:
- You type in your e-mail address.
- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- ftp> binary
- You type "binary". This sets the transfer in non-ASCII mode.
- If you do not do this the files may get corrupted!
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> prompt
- You type "prompt". This turns off the interactive mode. You can now get
- multiple files without being prompted.
- Interactive mode off.
- ftp> ls
- You type "ls". This will show you the contents of the current directory.
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
- bin
- etc
- incoming
- pub
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 25 bytes received in 0.0069 seconds (3.5 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> cd pub
- You type "cd pub". This is the directory which contains the files you
- can download.
- 250-Please read the file README
- 250- it was last modified on Fri Nov 6 10:02:50 1992 - 7 days ago
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> ls
- You type "ls". This will show you the contents of the current directory.
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
- NISTIR
- README
- SRD
- preprints
- data
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 38 bytes received in 0.0066 seconds (5.7 Kbytes/s)
- ftp>
-
- From here you need to "cd" to the directory which contains the
- files you want then use "get" any one file or "mget" multiple files.
- "mget *" will get all the files in the directory. When you are done
- "quit" will exit ftp.
-
- This is a rough explanation of using ftp. Please consult your
- system administrator on how to use ftp if you don't know how. If you
- have any problems with the NIST site let me know. I will do all I can
- to help.
-
- This is a growing site. Periodically new publication and data will
- be posted here. Stop by and check it for new items if we are working
- on things you are interested in.
-
- Enjoy,
-
- R. Allen Wilkinson
- NIST
- Bldg 225 Rm A216
- Gaithersburg, MD 20899
- urt@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
-