Well I have had a Mac for two years this month, and this week has been an revelation. I think I can do more or less everything I used to do on the windows machine. Its taken two years, but I think I am becoming a convert of sorts. Thanks for all your help friends.
Sent from my iPhone On 5 Sep 2013, at 18:55, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > The terminal doesn't provide a password field as you are imagining. > Basically, you type text at the command prompt and the machine responds. > Scrolling text up the screen. Many programs and commands have man pages. They > give all the available options so can look daunting. If you run terminal and > type man ftp then press the enter key. The man page for ftp will appear. Use > VO + up arrow and down to read the page. Press 'q' to quit the man page. A > quick look at it suggests you could type: > > ftp http://username:passw...@my-host.co.uk > > This is just one option. Providing you know your username and password, host > url and any required port information. You can string it together and get it > done. If you use the same site and same activity you can automate the > process. If you get the right structure but not specified the password. It > will prompt you to type it. There's no edit field, it's just there at the > prompt. Just type your password and press the enter key, so the machine knows > that you have finished. > > Be aware, that the flags are case sensitive. Thus -p is different to -P. > > Good luck. > > Gena > > Georgina Joyce > Applied Psychologist > Training and Coaching. > Because individuals of groups matter! > > > On 5 Sep 2013, at 11:38, David Eagle <onlineea...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I finally return to my mac after nine months of neglect, >> primarily due to my PC breaking. >> I am pleasantly surprised to find that I'm really enjoying the experience. >> However, I cannot find an FTP solution, and since I work quite a bit with >> FTP this is a bit of a blow. Apparently you can use terminal, but I can't >> find a place to enter a password. I can find username and host but no >> password field. I have selected ftp in the services list. Any help with >> terminal for FTP would be very much appreciated. I tried filezilla, which >> works brilliantly on the PC and is fully accessible on the PC, but sadly >> this is fully inaccessible on the mac. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
