Exercise 12: How to store and retrieve files

(12) How to store and retrieve files

1. If you have a binary file,
   be sure to request BINARY mode
   after you start.----------------------PROBLEM:
                                         SOLUTION:

2. You can begin by running--------------PROBLEM:
   NFT, a program that                   SOLUTION:
   automatically opens a
   connection to storage.

3. The PUT command is one of
   over a dozen that NFT offers.---------PROBLEM:
   Store a file by typing                SOLUTION:
      put filename

4. Retrieve a stored file
   by typing
      get filename
   unless you already have a-------------PROBLEM:
   file by that name, in which           SOLUTION:
   case NFT will print the message
   "cannot clobber existing file."
   Then you have a choice of-------------PROBLEM:
   typing                                SOLUTION:
      clobber
   to allow overwriting or
      get filename newname
   to change the name of the
   retrieved file as it arrives.

5. End NFT
   by typing  quit