Now the actual transfer from whether SDC or SRON can start. An example session to SRON:
$> ftp purple.sron.ruu.nl
Connected to purple.sron.ruu.nl.
220 purple FTP server (Version 1.7.111.1 Mon Apr 17 20:26:20 GMT 1995) ready.
Name (purple.sron.ruu.nl:joe): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: joe@some.institute
(Not echoed)
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd /sax/Dist
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/bin/ls.
total .....
.....
-rw-r--r-- 1 sax users 5653188 Oct 10 10:18 wfc_full-038.023.tar.gz
.....
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get wfc_full-038.023.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for wfc_full-038.023.tar.gz (5653188 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
5653188 bytes received in 5.66 seconds (975.94 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
$