How can i download flash player at school with the Command Prompt?

Question

How can i download flash player at school with the Command Prompt?

Answer 1

To download files using a command or MS-DOS prompt, you will need to do four things:

   1. Open an MS-DOS or Command Prompt Window

   2. Start an FTP session

   3. Supply your username and password

   4. Download the necessary files and exit the FTP session

   1. Open an MS-DOS or Command Prompt Window

      In Windows, the shortcut for the command or MS-DOS prompt is usually located in:

      Start | Programs | MS-DOS Prompt

      or

      Start | Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt

      Once you have the command prompt window open, you will want to go to the directory where you want the software to be downloaded.

      For instance:

      C:\>cd C:\downloads

   2.

      Start an FTP session

      To start an FTP session you will enter the ftp command and the server to connect to:

      C:\downloads>ftp ftp.platte.com

      The ftp server will respond with:

      Connected to ftp.platte.com.

      220 ftp.platte.com FTP server (Version 6.5/OpenBSD) ready.

      User (ftp.platte.com:(none)):

   3.

      Supply your username and password

      At this point, you will enter your username:

      User (ftp.platte.com:(none)): username

      and password:

      331 Password required for username.

      Password:

      note: you will not see your password when you type it.

      The password is case sensitive, make sure you enter it correctly.

      Once you have successfully logged in, the server will respond with:

      230- OpenBSD 2.9 (GENERIC) #653: Sat Apr 28 13:57:59 MDT 2001

      230-

      230 User username logged in.

      ftp>

   4. Download the necessary files and exit the FTP session

      You may list the contents of files available for download by using the "dir" command:

      ftp> dir

      200 PORT command successful.

      150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.

      total 102656

      -rw-r--r--   1 1034  998         0 Oct  2 14:29 .message

      -r--r--r--  11 0     0    10135845 Sep 11 14:44 acroread.zip

      -r--r--r--  11 0     0    42376281 Sep 11 14:46 setup.exe

      226 Transfer complete.

      ftp: 209 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 10.45Kbytes/sec.

      ftp>

                

      Most files available for download are in binary format, this includes files with the extensions of .exe, .zip, or .tar.gz.

      Files that are not binary are ASCII files or text files (.txt).

      To correctly download binary files, you must switch to binary mode.

      To do this, type "binary" at the ftp prompt:

      ftp> binary

      200 Type set to I.

      ftp>

      (If you need to use ascii mode for an ASCII file, use the "ascii" command. Also, you may type "help" for a list of ftp commands.)

      Once this is done you are ready to download the files you need.

      All you have to do is type "get filename.exe" at the ftp prompt.

      ftp> get acroread.zip

      200 PORT command successful.

      150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'acroread.zip' (10135845 bytes).

      Once the file has been downloaded completely, the server will respond with:

      226 Transfer complete.

      ftp: 10135845 bytes received in 11.92Seconds 850.54Kbytes/sec.

      At this point, you may download another file. If the next file is binary, you do not have to type "binary" again.

      Otherwise if you have downloaded all needed files, just type "quit", and your files will be in the directory you ran ftp from.

      ftp> quit

      221 Goodbye

      C:\downloads>