These are instructions on the use of anonymous ftp to download copies of the CS Division technical reports, University of California, Berkeley.
Please note that these reports are also made available through the CS Division Gopher Server, ftp.cs.berkeley.edu - port 70. For those with access to gopher or xgopher clients, this may be an easier way to access the reports.
To effectively use ftp, please first read the ftp manpage for your system. On UNIX, this may be done as
% man ftp
% ftp tr-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
And enter your full internet name as the "password" (your full name is the name you give to others off-site to send you mail, for example "myname@myoffice.mysite.edu".
To receive an index of technical reports available, after entering your name as password, continue by typing
cd tech-reports/ADMget csd.pricelist quit
To then copy a certain technical report (say it was called "report1", Then
cd /pub/tech-reports/csd
Then move to the directory that holds the report wanted (you'll get this from the techrpt.listings file). For example:
cd csd-00-000ls
Many of the reports and the illustrations for them are not straight-forward text; they've been compressed or tarred or something. For these to copy correctly through ftp, you must let ftp know by issuing the command
binary
In fact, for UNIX systems, you might want to automatically issue this command right after the password.
Now you can access the file you file by typing "get" followed by its name, as in
get somefile.1get somefile.2
If there are many similarly named files, you may want to use "wildcards" along with the "mget" command (stands for "multiple get"), as in
mget somefile.*
Please read the README file in each directory.
Any other questions, send e-mail to tr-help@cs.berkeley.edu