Software We'll Need For This Course

1. Get ws_ftp32.zip here. This is an FTP Client. "Client" means it runs on your PC, and connects to a "Server." "FTP" means "file transfer protocol." This was the hottest thing on the Internet until the Worldwide Web came along, about 1995.

2. You will need an "unzipping" program like WinZip to unzip it. Once unzipped to a directory of your choice, run the install program.

You can download Winzip here. Click on "Software archives." It's legal -- MSU has a licence for student and faculty use.

3. You should also download the Adobe Acrobat Reader program from this page. You'll need it to read articles in .PDF format. A lot of articles come in that format, so get it now. However, check your computer first -- you may already have it, without knowing it (it often comes with new computers).

4. To configure your FTP client for connecting with my office computer, do this:

• Create a New "Profile Name" -- say, "Prof. Furr's Computer". Any name will do.
• The new "Host Name/Address" is furrg.montclair.edu 
• "Host Type" MUST be QVT/Net4.0 (though probably some other settings, like "Unix Standard" and "Auto Detect", will work too).
• "User ID" is - whatever I email you or tell you in class.
• "Password" is -- well, I'll tell you in class (I don't want to put this on the Web for all the world to see, do I?).

Now we'll now have a "drop box" to which we can up- and download articles. No need for everybody to get everything on their own!

There is another reason to have this "drop box" (really, a directory only we in this class can up- and download to). It keeps the materials off the Worldwide Web. Web search engines can't find them. That means that it's legal to share copyrighted materials this way, since we are not making them generally available. Copyright allows anyone to make one copy of any copyrighted material for their own personal use.