A problem with some web editors like Netscape Composer is you can not delete files or create subdirectories. You are stuck with only uploading files. With Windows 95 there is a program, FTP.EXE, that will let you delete files, rename files, create subdirectories, delete directories and more.. And every Windows 95/98 computer with dialup networking installed should also have FTP installed..
FTP or short for File Transfer Protocol is a useful program for transferring files and maintaining your web site.. As you most likely will use your web creation software to upload your pages, the FTP commands that you may find most useful in maintaining your Loblolly hosted web site are these:
open www.loblolly.net
close to sign off from www.loblolly.net or other ftp site.
bye to exit the FTP program.
exit to exit the MS-Dos prompt window and go back to Windows 95/98
mkdir directory name to create a subdirectory.
rmdir directory name to remove an empty directory.
pwd for the present working directory that you are in.
del file name to delete the file.
cd directory to change to another directory.
First Connect to Loblolly as you normally do.. You can start Netscape or Internet Explorer to check and make sure that you are connected by bringing up web pages..
Click on the Start button and then Programs and over to MS-DOS Prompt. This should bring a up a MS-Dos window with a C:\WINDOWS> prompt... and type in at the prompt....
C:\WINDOWS> ftp www.loblolly.net this will then start up the FTP program and start the login to the Loblolly hosted web server and you should get a greeting and request for your login name and then your password....
User <www.loblolly.net:<none>>: your login name
Password: your passwordftp> ? will give you a listing of available ftp commands...
ftp> mkdir testdir to make a subdirectory named testdir
ftp> dir to see a directory listing with your new subdirectory.
ftp> cd testdir to change to the new subdirectory..
ftp> pwd to check where you are
ftp> cd to change back to your main directoryLast Updated June 14, 1999ftp> pwd to make sure you are in your main directory
ftp> dir to see your directory listing including the testdir subdirectory.
ftp> rmdir testdir to delete the subdirectory.
ftp> dir to check and see that the subdirectory is now gone.
ftp> close to sign off from www.loblolly.net
ftp> bye to exit the FTP program
C:\WINDOWS exit to exit the MS-DOS Prompt screen and return back to Windows 95.
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