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| Q: Will you consider trades for your CDROM's? Yes email me with your Offer |
| Q: Can you add a link to my site on your page? |
| A: Yes, just email me the link and I will add it to the links page. All I ask is for you to add a link to my page to your site. |
| Q: Is my house on the Aerial photos CD? |
| A: See my Topo and Aerial FAQ |
| Q: What else is in the works for your site? |
| A: I have a few ideas. One I am working on is more detailed use of aerial photos. Keep checking back. |
| Q: Some sites require the use of FTP. How to you use it? |
| A: There are several ways to use FTP. The most convenient way is with a World Wide Web browser, which can connect
to an FTP address just as it can to a Web (HTTP) address. Using a Web browser for FTP transfers makes it easy for
you to browse large directories and read and retrieve files. Your Web browser will also take care of some of the
details of connecting to a site and transferring files. For example, to use your Web browser to connect to the site ftp.empire.gov, you would enter: ftp://ftp.empire.gov/ . While this method is convenient, Web browsers are often slower, less reliable, and have fewer features than other ways of using FTP. You can also use FTP in a command line format from your UNIX account, or your UNIX or DOS workstation. For example, to start FTP, enter at the command line prompt: ftp ftp.empire.gov . When you connect to another computer with FTP in this way, you must enter a name and password. To connect to an account of your own, enter your own username and password. To connect to most anonymous FTP sites, enter anonymous as your username and your e-mail address as the password. As a shortcut, you can usually abbreviate your e-mail address by entering: username@ Replace username with your own username. The FTP program will automatically add your site name. Note that even if you are using a desktop computer to log into a UNIX shell account , the files you transfer in an FTP session started from your UNIX shell account will be stored in the directory of your account, and not on the hard drive of your desktop computer. If you connect via Ethernet or PPP and run an FTP program from your desktop computer (rather than a UNIX shell account), the files will usually transfer to your hard drive. If you have dialed in using a communications program such as Telix or ProComm, you must use the file transfer functions of that program to transfer files from your account to your desktop computer's hard drive. Use this advice is at your own risk |
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