Interactive FTP

Change directory to the location in which you wish to download the EMBOSS source code. In this example we will download the source to

/packages/EMBOSS

. Then start your ftp client and point it to emboss.open-bio.org.

% ftp emboss.open-bio.org
Connected to emboss.open-bio.org.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (emboss.open-bio.org:someuser):

We are using anonymous FTP so type the username

anonymous

.

Name (emboss.open-bio.org:someuser): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:

Enter your email address here as the password for user

anonymous

.

Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

Move to the EMBOSS directory and list the files. The output has been truncated a little to save space.

ftp> cd /pub/EMBOSS
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 22334
...     1024 May 26 20:17 .gnu
...  9079913 May 14 21:37 EMBOSS-2.5.0.tar.gz
...       19 May 14 21:37 EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz -> EMBOSS-2.5.0.tar.gz
...   196872 May 12 18:49 EMNU-1.0.5.tar.gz
...   231485 May 15 13:55 ESIM4-1.0.0.tar.gz
...   405620 May 12 18:49 HMMER-2.1.1.tar.gz
...     1024 Jul 25 08:54 Jemboss
...   264189 May 12 18:49 MEME-2.3.1.tar.gz
...   251061 Jul  9 19:01 MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz
...   694450 May 12 18:49 PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz
...   200490 May 12 18:49 TOPO-0.1.tar.gz
...     1536 Jul  9 19:01 old
...      512 Jun 27 14:40 patchfiles
...      512 Feb 22 15:19 tutorials
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>

Now download the source files

ftp> get EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz 
(9079913 bytes).
...
ftp>

And repeat for each file. Or use

mget *gz

to download all the files at once. Exit your ftp session with the command

bye

.