Once you're connected to the server, you can navigate the remote server by typing ls to view the contents of the server's working directory. To change your working directory, type cd <dirname> where dirname is the name of the directory you wish to browse. You can type cd .. to go to the parent directory of the current directory.

Begin by going to the Start menu and choosing "Run". Once the dialog box appears, type ftp in the space provided. If something is already there, just type over it.

After the FTP window appears, you should see something like this:

Now type open ftp.ipartner.net. When asked for a username, type anonymous When asked for a password, type your email address (it won't appear on the screen). After you've typed your email address and hit return, the screen should look something like this:

ftp> open ftp.ipartner.net
Connected to ipartner.net.
220 ipartner.net ftp server (Version 5.3.2) ready.
User (ipartner.net:(none)): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230- Welcome to iPartner.net Anonymous FTP Archive
230- Send problem reports or questions to tech@iPartner.net
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp>

Let's change directories one more time to the audio directory by typing cd audio. Now we're in the audio directory and are almost ready to download the boip.wav file. Before we download anything, we want to make sure of two things:

1. our local directory is where we want it, and
2. our transfer type is correct for the kind of file we're transferring.

Now type cd windows to change our local working directory to the windows directory. Now type cd desktop to change our local working directory to the desktop. Type exit to return to FTP.

We now need to make sure we're transferring files correctly. The safest way is to transfer all files using binary mode. To change to binary mode, type type binary. This will allow the file to be transferred correctly from the server to your local hard drive. Text files (plain text files, HTML files, etc.) should be sent and retrieved using ascii mode (type ascii). Since boip.wav is not an text file, we use binary mode (this is true for word processing files, spreadsheets, sound files, images, and everything else).

We're ready to get the file. There are several commands which are essentially identical; let's use get (get a file). Type get boip.wav. This will retrieve the boip.wav file and store it on your computer. Note that it will not move the file (remove the file from the server), but simply send a copy to your computer. Note also that this is case-sensitive, meaning that if the file is shown in upper-case letters, you'll need to type the file name in upper-case letters too. If there's mixed case, you'll need to type the file name identically.

When the file has been received, you will see a message like this (the transfer times will vary greatly):

ftp: 11564 bytes received in 0.05Seconds 231.28Kbytes/sec.

If you want to upload web pages, type cd www at the prompt. Then change your local directory to the directory where your web pages are stored on your hard drive (or floppy disk). If you're sending text files (html files are text files), change the transfer type to "ascii" by typing type ascii. If you're sending graphics or images to the server, make sure you're using the binary transfer type (type type binary at the prompt). Use the send or put command to send the files up to the server. You can send multiple files at once by using the mput command (e.g., mput *.html).