Dyntex Hosting - Manuals: CuteFTP for Win95/98/NT User's Guide

CuteFTP v4 User’s Guide Wildcard Mask Examples: Mask: Will Match: * all files *.bmp sample.bmp, xyz.bmp, but not sample.gif x?z xyz, xaz, but not xyy a[xyz]c axc, ayc, azc, but not abc a[!xyz]c abc, adc, afc etc, but not axc a[a-c]d aad, abd, acd, but not axd Searching for Files on an FTP Server Use this feature to search for file names and extensions in the current directory. NOTE: Wild cards will not work. The first entry
found is highlighted. Subsequent entries can be found with the Find Next command (Control-G). To find a file, select Edit/Find from the menu bar. Enter the file name or extension to find, and press OK. Select Edit/ Find Next to
find the next matching entry. CuteFTP will display “No More Matches Found” when all matching entries have been highlighted. Viewing, Editing, and Executing Files VIEW. Located on the tool bar, this command opens the highlighted file (either on the local or remote drive) in your text file viewer. Select a text file viewer in the Helper Applications section of the Edit/Settings window. EDIT. Select an editor program in Edit/ Settings/ Helper Applications. Users may also choose to leave the field blank. To edit a file, right-click on the file name and select Edit. If you use CuteHTML as your editor, changes you make will automatically be
transferred to the remote site; otherwise you will be presented with a dialog box asking you to upload the changes. EXECUTE. Click Commands/File Actions/Execute to launch the highlighted file, or right-click on the file and select Execute from the pop-up menu. Deleting, Renaming and Moving Files You may access these commands from the from the menu bar under Commands/Directory or from the right-click menu. MOVE...: Highlight the file(s), select Move and enter the new path. RENAME...: Highlight the files, select Rename and enter a new name for the file. DELETE: Select the file(s), choose Delete (or press the Delete key) and the files will be relocated to the Recycle Bin. Creating, Renaming and Deleting Folders You may access the following commands from the from the menu bar under Commands/Directory or from the right-click menu. MAKE NEW DIR...: creates a new folder.
RENAME: renames an existing folder.
DELETE: deletes an existing folder. Changing Attributes of Files and Folders From the menu bar, use Commands/ File Actions/CHMOD to change the attributes of a file or folder on the server. In the Change
Attributes dialog box, select the Read, Write, or Execute options for each group (Owner, Group and Public) or type in the
corresponding CHMOD command in the box. Below is a brief description of CHMOD permissions and how they work: CHMOD’s permission mask is a three-digit number. Each digit defines the permission for a different user of the file. The
first digit defines the permission for the owner, the second digit defines the permissions for the group and the third digit
defines the permissions for everyone else (referred to by CuteFTP as public). Each digit works the same for each group of
users: the owner, group, and public. What you set for one digit has no effect on the other two digits. Each digit is made up
of the three Read, Write, and Execute permissions. The Read permission value is 4, the Write permission value is 2, and the
Execute permission value is 1. These three numbers are added together to get the permissions for a file. If you want a file to 13