Due to the nature of a public account such as guestftp, preparing a file for transfer to the InterNet is a two stage process. Firstly, you need to transfer the file from your machine to uk.ac.nsf.sun, where it will be placed in a gen- eral area. You should then login to the guestftp service as usual and retrieve the file from this area.
For example, if you have a file foo.c on your local machine, transfer this using the remote filename foo.c, and remote username and password of guestftp.
Once this transfer has completed, login to the guestftp ser- vice, and the ret command to place the file in your direc- tory on uk.ac.nsf.sun :
guest_ftp> ret Give name of file to be retrieved: foo.c Trying to retrieve now, result is..OK. guest_ftp> dir 26 Jun 19 17:07 foo.c total blocks: 400 guest_ftp>
The file is now ready to send to the US using the ftp com- mand.