FTP Username: ftp@amtechdisc.com
Password: please call 1-800-777-1927 or email
Please compress
your files with Zip or Stuffit before sending. This ensures the transfer is 100% correct and usually saves time. We highly recommend Servant Salamander to manage your files on Windows.
It is essential to use "BINARY" mode and not "ASCII" mode. Passive mode should not be required. If you have problems ensure passive mode is not enabled.
Please notify
us when complete.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTP is a method of transferring files directly from one computer to another, over the internet.
We recommend Stuffing or Zipping the files before the transfer, for several reasons:
- to reduce the transfer time
- to gather all your files into one archive
- when we unstuff or unzip the file, we can be 100% sure the transfer was good.
- Apple computers cannot transfer font files directly! They must be stuffed.
- NOTE! If you are on a dial-up line it will be safer to transfer several smaller files rather than one big file.
- We can also accept gz, 7-zip, PAK, RAR, LHA, ARJ, ACE, and Servant Salamander encrypted files.
There are many programs you can use to do the transfer. We were surprised to learn that Windows Explorer has ftp built-in. Just paste ftp://ftp.amtechdisc.com into the location bar as shown below:
Now you just have to open another window, navigate to where you saved your zip file, and then Drag-and-Drop it onto our ftp site.
For people who prefer the keyboard instead of dragging windows all around the screen, you can use the ftp.exe program that comes with every version of Windows, OS/2, and Unix. This is what you would do:
- type ftp from a command line window or the "Start -> Run..." buttons.
- >open ftp.amtechdisc.com
- user: client
- password: xxxxx (the password we gave you)
- ftp> bin (sets binary transfer mode - very important)
- lcd c:\mydocs (Local Change Directory to where you saved your file)
- mkdir joesfiles (makes a new folder on our hard drive - optional)
- cd joesfiles (change directory to" joesfiles" - optional)
- put "43355 art files.zip"
- dir (look to see that you really did transfer the file)
- quit
A hardcore typer can do this in less time than a mouse-user can remember where he saved his file!
Here are some other programs that we have tested:
Make sure that whatever ftp program you use, that you use binary mode,
not ascii mode. We do not offer technical support on installing these programs.
We have tested them to confirm that they work for us. You may have to spend 10
minutes to figure out how those programs work.
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