R4400 Microprocessor User's Manual

Getting MIPS Documents On-Line

MIPS documents (including an electronic version of the errata) are available on-line, through the file transport protocol (FTP). To retrieve them, follow the steps below. The text you are to type is shown in Bold or Courier font; the computer's responses are in shown in plain Italic font.

1. First, place yourself in the directory on your system within which you want to store the retrieved files. Do this by typing:

cd <directory_you_want_file_to_be_in>

2. Access the MIPS document server, sgigate, through FTP by typing:

ftp sgigate.sgi.com

3. The server tells you when you are connected for FTP by responding:

Connected to sgigate.sgi.com.

4. Next (after some announcements) the server asks you to log in by requesting a name and then a password.

Name (sgigate.sgi.com:<login_name>):

5. Login by typing anonymous for your name and your electronic mail address for your password.

Name (sgigate.sgi.com:<login_name>): anonymous

331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.

Password: your_email_address

6. The system indicates you have successfully logged in by supplying an FTP prompt:

ftp>

7. Go to the pub/doc directory by typing:

ftp> cd pub/doc

8. You can take a look at the contents of the doc directory by listing them:

ftp> ls

9. You will find several R4000-related subdirectories, such as R4200, R4400, and R4600. When you find the subdirectory you want, cd into that subdirectory and retrieve the file you want by typing:

get <filename>

This copies the file from sgigate back to your system.

10. When you have retrieved the files you want, exit from ftp by typing:

ftp> quit

11. If the file was encoded for transmission, you must decode it, after retrieval, by typing:

uudecode <filename>

12. If the file was compressed for transmission, you must uncompress it, after retrieval, by typing:

uncompress <filename>

13. If you tarred the file, type:

tar xvof <filename>

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