File Transer Protocol (FTP)

Hmmm what can I say, we'll Ive never used filezilla before, but it turned out to be a simple learning curve especially after I read the help file, I downloaded the file README and low and behold there it was the answer to my query The file I found was

* ATTENTION MAC, OS/2, MS-DOS and MS-WINDOWS users:
This server runs on a unix platform, so CAPITALIZATION MATTERS!A file named "file.txt" IS NOT THE SAME as "FILE.TXT"
-------------------------------------------------------------------* Converting and compressing files:
Sailor's ftp server can compress files on the fly, using the following forms of compression and file extensions:
compression method extension------------------ ---------GNU zip (gzip) .gz unix compress .Zinfo-zip .zip
The info-zip format is compatible with PKZIP, popular on manyMS-DOS, MS-Windows and Windows '95 systems.
All compression techniques require you to set your transfer mode to BINARY.
Getting a file with a particular compression type is as simple as asking for it. For example, if you want to get the file "wifrb10.txt" in gzip format, use the following commands:
(The server's response is left out here)
ftp> binary ftp> get wifrb10.txt.gz
For compatibility with file systems that allow only "8.3" file names, (or systems that allow only one dot in a filename), our server is configured to allow you to replace the".txt" extension with the extension of the compressed file. For example, to get the file above, with an 8.3 file name, you could have issued the commands:
ftp> binary ftp> get wifrb10.gz
For files with an extension other than ".txt", this method will not work - however, your ftp client will probably allow you to specify the local filename on the command line - so,to get the file "INDEXALL.GUT" in zip format with a ".zip"extension, you would use these commands:
ftp> binary ftp> get INDEXALL.GUT.zip indexall.zip
Since many web browsers don't allow you to get ftp files that don't appear in the listings, we have included the .zip filesin the Gutenberg archives.
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It would appear that the word I was searching for is CAPITALIZATION (highlighted in red text above)

This task though simple had one time consuming component. I found that I had to search manually through all the files to locate the one needed. I think that if a file search was installed in filezilla it would have made the process more efficient. I can only imagine what a nightmare it would be to have to search an entire database for a specific file, Maybe I'm wrong but it would seem that an exacting address to a specific file would probably have helped also, but then maybe the task would have been to simple.

Telnet task B

Ive been thinking about task B for a while now hence my lack of communication sorry everyone. This telnet site blinkenlights.nl is a very clever use of limited resources, the use of keyboard characters as a graphics tool was something I used to toy with when I was younger. Although time and technology have moved forward to create faster smoother graphics applications. It was a nice nostalgia trip, but as previously stated on the deakin library telnet task the monochrome graphics can soon lead to a lack of interest due to insufficient visual stimuli, But that is only my opinion of course it would have take a great deal of patience and time to put this ditty together and for what its worth congratulations to the designer, there is no way I would have the patience to complete movie length extravaganza like this, of course nowadays with all the graphics applications available to us it would still be a huge undertaking but the final outcome would be a lot more visually appealing. This type of content although very primitive would have had some obstacles to overcome at the time of its creation, such as getting out to the audience lol. who ever that may have been, not many people would have had access to a computer let alone known about telnet, even now the amount of people that know of the existence of telnet does not make this a widely viewed medium for anything other than records and data retrieval. With that in mind the need for new technologies and software would have been a necessary step in getting the information to a wider audience not to mention a wider variety of content availability.