How do I send and receive files once connected in MS-DOS FTP? To get files from the server and place them in your current working directory, on the machine you are working, type: get myfile.htm Where myfile.htm is the name of the file you wish to get from the computer connected to. To send a file from your computer to the computer you are connected to (providing you have proper rights and the file exists in the current working directory), type: send myfile.htm Where myfile.htm is the name of the file that exists in the current directory; if you cannot recall the name of the file, use the ! command to temporally get back to a MS-DOS prompt; once you have located the file name, type exit to get back to the location you left in FTP. In MS-DOS FTP I am only able to send files in the directory that I typed FTP in. Set
the LCD, for example, if you want to send files that are in the C:\Windows directory, type: LCD c:\windows How do I download multiple files from an FTP server? Use the mget command, which is short for multiple get. Using the mget command you can get multiple files by using wildcards. For example, " mget *.* " would get all files in the current directory. By default, prompting would be enabled; if you wish to get all files without being prompted, use the "prompt" command to disable/enable prompting. When attempting to connect to an FTP address, receiving "10061" error This error is caused when the server is refusing the connection. Attempt to connect to an alternate FTP address. If you are able to connect to other FTP addresses, it is likely the site generating the error 10061 is refusing
to accept your connection because of security privileges or because it is not an FTP server. If you are unable to connect to any address, it is likely an issue with the network or computer configuration.
- Ensure that the network configuration settings are properly setup as well as FTP rights.
- Verify that the firewall is properly setup to accept FTP access.
How to create a Windows FTP script Create a text document with commands used when in FTP. Below is an example of what such a script may look like: open ftp.domain.com
username
password
cd public_html
dir
get file.txt
bye The above script will log into the ftp site ftp.domain.com. Once connected, it will enter the username and then the password (substitute username for your username and password for your password). Once logged in, the script then goes into the public_html directory, gets a directory listing and then uses the get command to get the file called file.txt. Once the file is received, it logs off using the bye command. Once the script file has been created, for example, if it was called script.txt, to execute this script with ftp you would type: ftp -s:script.txt | 
