PCT CD now available by FTP

CSGnet Archive CSG2002
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[From Dag Forssell (2002.07.26 19:00)]

I am gradually getting the hang of websites and such. I have updated
www.forssell.com numerous times in the past weeks.

I have begun spending time on www.pctresources.com. The website now has a
preliminary outline that our daughter Karin developed a while back based on
my input. I will now take charge of it, update, reshape and post a number
of files with links.

As the first order of business, I have defined a Web user folder with its
own user name and password.

Access requires an FTP program, not your browser. I have tried to access it
with Internet Explorer and Opera and failed. I suppose the reason is that
you must state your user name and password.

There are 215 MB of archives there now.

I'd appreciate feedback on this. I can easily change User name and or
password if that makes things easier somehow.

Address: ftp.pctresources.com
User name: PCTer case sensitive, I think. Please confirm.
Password: Control case sensitive, I think. Please confirm.

I think this will work fine. I had trouble reading the folders with two of
our four machines, both running NT4, until I realized that coincidentally
these still had the file management program PowerDesk Pro v4, not v5 as on
my Win 2000 machines. Now that I upgraded, they all work fine and I can
edit folder names and whatever from any one of them. So it may make a
difference which FTP program you use.

I would like to keep this folder "Read Only" but I don't see how I can.
That's your micro-manager speaking -- I am the webmaster here! Perhaps
reports will let me know if some deletions or uploads take place. I can
always wipe it clean and start over. I did provide a folder for updates and
placed it first in the alphabet.

The alternative of linking all these files from html-pages does not appeal,
even though that might prevent tampering. There are so many files.

If any CSGnetter knows about these things and has any suggestions, I'll
appreciate it.

Best, Dag

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[From Bruce Nevin (2002.07.30 17:06 EDT)]

http://www.bloomington.in.us/help/ftp.html (Last Modified Thu, 07 Feb 2002) says:

For Netscape the proper syntax is ftp://username@hostname, e.g.:
ftp://jdough@bloomington.in.us

You will be prompted for your username and password.

In Internet Explorer the form used is ftp://username:password@hostname, e.g:
ftp://jdough:ItYXXno?@bloomington.in.us

There are reports that some later versions of IE use the Netscape style syntax, but we have not found them workable. Having the password in the URL field is a security risk and we recommend against it.

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At 07:06 PM 7/26/2002 -0700, Forssell Translation Team wrote:

[From Dag Forssell (2002.07.26 19:00)]

I am gradually getting the hang of websites and such. I have updated
www.forssell.com numerous times in the past weeks.

I have begun spending time on www.pctresources.com. The website now has a
preliminary outline that our daughter Karin developed a while back based on
my input. I will now take charge of it, update, reshape and post a number
of files with links.

As the first order of business, I have defined a Web user folder with its
own user name and password.

Access requires an FTP program, not your browser. I have tried to access it
with Internet Explorer and Opera and failed. I suppose the reason is that
you must state your user name and password.

There are 215 MB of archives there now.

I'd appreciate feedback on this. I can easily change User name and or
password if that makes things easier somehow.

Address: ftp.pctresources.com
User name: PCTer case sensitive, I think. Please confirm.
Password: Control case sensitive, I think. Please confirm.

I think this will work fine. I had trouble reading the folders with two of
our four machines, both running NT4, until I realized that coincidentally
these still had the file management program PowerDesk Pro v4, not v5 as on
my Win 2000 machines. Now that I upgraded, they all work fine and I can
edit folder names and whatever from any one of them. So it may make a
difference which FTP program you use.

I would like to keep this folder "Read Only" but I don't see how I can.
That's your micro-manager speaking -- I am the webmaster here! Perhaps
reports will let me know if some deletions or uploads take place. I can
always wipe it clean and start over. I did provide a folder for updates and
placed it first in the alphabet.

The alternative of linking all these files from html-pages does not appeal,
even though that might prevent tampering. There are so many files.

If any CSGnetter knows about these things and has any suggestions, I'll
appreciate it.

Best, Dag