How to Use LCD Group ftp Space

outside SLAC inside SLAC

We have 50 Mbytes of group ftp space to be used to distribute files to users outside SLAC.  This space will be substantially increased if this proves to be a convenient method of distributing lcd software and parameter files.

Accessing the space from outside SLAC

Anyone should be able to copy files from this space by either

  1. Using ftp directly to login as anonymous, e.g. 
    $ ftp ftp.slac.stanford.edu

Name (ftp.slac.stanford.edu:jrb): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:

ftp> cd groups/lcd
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
RootApps
StdHep
226 Transfer complete.
18 bytes received in 0.014 seconds (1.23 Kbytes/s)

    and so forth. Issue get commands to copy files as needed, remembering to set binary or ascii mode as appropriate

  2. using a web browser. Use the URL ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/groups/lcd/. To actually fetch one of the files from your browser, you may have to right-click on it and select save link as.. in Netscape or copy to folder in Internet Explorer.

    This may not work properly for the StdHep libraries. Netscape displays icons indicating it thinks these files are ascii, so likely would use the wrong mode to transfer them.

Viewing the space from a SLAC unix account

The space exists in the afs file system as /afs/slac.stanford.edu/public/groups/lcd.   Before writing to this space, make sure you understand the overall organization. In most cases you should expect to add at least one new README file or modify existing ones to accompany the files you wish to distribute.

J. Bogart.  Last modified: 01/13/04