Vermont Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Use Fetch (Mac FTP) to Upload Your Files to the Server

Open Fetch. In the dialog box that appears you will need to provide the following information:

    Host: vetc.vsc.edu
    User ID:  your VETC account name (EX: ces, hes, etc.--use lower case)
    Password: your VETC password

After pressing OK Fetch will connect to your VETC account. On the left side of the screen you will see your directories and files. Above this list is a box that shows which directory you are currently in.
To move a file from your hard drive to the server, first choose "Text" or "Binary." (Remember: text refers only to plain ascii text files, not necessarily files created with a word processor. Binary includes everything else. Your HTML files should be plain text files and your images or graphics files will be binary.)
Now click on the "Put File" button. You will be presented with the usual Mac dialog box for opening a file. Find your file and Open it.
In the next dialog box, be sure your file format is "Text" for text files by clicking on the "format" button just below the file's name. If you are moving images, be sure to choose "Raw Data." Also be sure your file ends with the name .html for a Web text file, or .gif or .jpeg for graphics files.
Click OK. Watch the right side of the Fetch screen to see the progress of the transfer.
When files are moved to the server they are automatically set to be unreadable by the general public. To re-set the rights on your file so that they can be accessible on the Web go to the menu item "Remote" and choose "Send FTP Command..."
In the dialog box that appears type:
```
    site chmod 644 filename
```
where filename is the name of the file you just moved.
If you have Fetch version 3.0 or higher it's even easier to set the rights. Click on the file, choose "Remote: Set Permissions." You will be offered a dialog box. Give everyone "read" rights, but give only yourself, the owner, "write" rights.
Or, if you are moving many files, go to "Remote: Set Upload Permissions" and set these rights before moving any files.

That's it! You've moved your files to the server and they are now available to anyone on the Web!

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Updated by: Hope Greenberg
July 10, 1996.