AxY FTP User Guide - Session Window

## Session Window

Session window appears when you click "connect" button. It consists of a lower bar with "OK","Cancel","Save", and "Help" buttons and a Notebook- like structure with several pages. This version has three pages labelled "General", "Startup", and "Advanced".

- OK button makes session window disappear and attempt to connect to the site using the data displayed on the pages of the notebook.
- Cancel button just makes session window disappear.
- Save button saves changes to the selected or new session.
- Help button invokes on-line help.

### "General" page

- New button
  clears all fields of the Notebook to make them available for entering new site data. Also De-selects "Profile name" drop-down list.
- Delete button
  deletes selected entry from the "Profile name" drop-down list.
- Profile Name drop-down list
  contains the list of names for the sessions you saved (by clicking on "Apply" button). Selecting the entry makes all the data of the session appear in the fields of the Notebook.
- Host Name/Address text field
  contains the name or numeric IP address of the host to connect to.
- User ID text field
  contains the user id to be used while logging onto remote site.
- Anonymous toggle
  is used to make user id "anonymous" and default anonymous FTP password appear in the appropriate fields. Also has effect of making "Password" entry field visible.
- Password text field
  contains the password to be used while logging onto remote site.
- Save password toggle
  is used to make this field for this session saved on disk when you click on "Apply" button. Your password will not be written while saving session data if the toggle is unchecked.
- Account text field
  contains the account name to be used while logging onto remote site. Some FTP servers may need that.
- Comment text field
  may contain whatever descriptive information you want to help you identify the session.

### "Startup" page

This page contains information on the immediate actions of the program upon successful login to the remote site.

First, FTP commands in the "Initial command" text field are sent to the remote server. Separate multiple commands with ';'. An example of this field could be:
`SITE umask 022;SITE chmod 766 /logs/error.log`
Do not put extra spaces, FTP protocol is very sensitive about it!

Second, the program changes to the remote directory specified in "Initial remote directory" field, and then to local directory specified in "Initial local directory" field. Remote and local masks are set to the values specified in the "Remote File Mask" and "Local File Mask" fields. Only after that the directory listings of both local and remote directories are updated.

When using automatic reconnect feature of the program by answering "Yes" to the "Connection lost. Reconnect?" question, only the commands in the "Initial Command" field are sent to the server. File masks and current directories will remain the same as they were before losing connection.

### "Advanced" page

This page currently contains only one text field: Remote Host Port.
Default is 21 and it should stay this way unless you know it should be changed.

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