Uploading files

When you wish to test your assembly code and revisions, you can rapidly upload your source file(s) to the target Itanium system using an ftp client application. Then you can proceed with issuing appropriate host commands in the window of the telnet client application.

We suggest several ftp applications in Appendix B. Like telnet, traditional ftp transmits the plain-text version of your password through the network. Therefore the manager of the Itanium system or your network may encourage, or even require, that you use a more secure connection method.

If you have never used ftp before, it will be helpful for you to know that your client ftp application construes its get and put commands from the vantage point of your local computer. ...

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