network services

There's way too much information required to thoroughly answer your question than the space on this thread allows. However, the following links will provide you with the information you requested.

WebCom (a Web hosting company) has a series of excellent explanatory articles on FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

http://www.webcom.com/help/ftp/

And WS_FTP (A company who provides FTP software) has a similar series of FTP educational articles.

http://www.ftpplanet.com/tutorial/

Using Telnet:

http://faq.web2010.com/telnet.html

Using Telnet with a POP3 Mail Server - a tutorial:

http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/pop3telnet.htm

How To Use Telnet:

http://www.bnserve.com/html/telnet.html

REMOVE SPACES from the pasted URLs.

Maxwell

Hi

Introduction to telnet, FTP, & gopher
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~au/workshop/telnet.htm

http://support.airmail.net/ftptel/cuteftp.php?s=1&ISP=ia

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a service that allow you to access and log into remote computers to download or upload files.
Command Line FTP ( show you an example of how to down load and up load)
(note first upload file of your own then down loaded it)
example put c:\text.txt
get text.txt (which then will be on your desktop)
http://support.airmail.net/ftptel/ftp95.php

Advanced Command Line FTP
http://support.airmail.net/ftptel/ftp95adv.php

1- CuteFTP
http://www.cuteftp.com/

2- Fetch (Macintosh)
http://fetchsoftworks.com/

3- LeechFTP 1.3 Build 207 (Release Date: [Apr-16-1999 )
http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/downloads.html

4- BitBeamer
http://www.bitbeamer.com/en/information.html

Windows 95 FTP
example start->run -> ftp ftp.airmail.net
http://support.airmail.net/ftptel/ftp95.php

WS_FTP
http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/file-transfer.html

Telnet

CRT
http://www.vandyke.com/

NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Brochure/Overview/MacTelnet.overview.html

MacTelnet(Macintosh)
http://www.mactelnet.com/

PuTTY
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

SecureCRT
http://www.vandyke.com/

Windows 95 Telnet
http://support.airmail.net/ftptel/cfgtelnet95.php

Telnet and FTP
http://www.webliminal.com/internet-today/it-chap07.html

gopher list
http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/subject-trees.html
gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/
gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu/

good luck
Mohamed

thanks for the help. so how would it work on a UNIX? and also how is the bridge/switch connected on the networks?