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  Set or unset the filename character translationmechanism. If no arguments are specified, thefilename character translation mechanism isunset. If arguments are specified, characters inremote filenames are translated during mput com-mands and put commands issued without a specifiedremote target filename. If arguments are speci-fied, characters in local filenames are trans-lated during mget commands and get commandsissued without a specified local target filename.This command is useful when connecting to anon-UNIX remote computer with different file nam-ing conventions or practices. Characters in afilename matching a character in inchars arereplaced with the corresponding character inoutchars. If the character's position in incharsis longer than the length of outchars, the char-acter is deleted from the file name.open host [[port] Establish a connection to the specified host FTPserver. An optional port number may be supplied,in which case, ftp will attempt to contact an FTPserver at that port. If the auto-login option ison (default), ftp will also attempt to automati-cally log the user in to the FTP server (seebelow).prompt Toggle interactive prompting. Interactiveprompting occurs during multiple file transfersto allow the user to selectively retrieve orstore files. If prompting is turned off (defaultis on), any mget or mput will transfer all files,and any mdelete will delete all files.proxy ftp-command Execute an ftp command on a secondary controlconnection. This command allows simultaneousconnection to two remote ftp servers for trans-ferring files between the two servers. The firstproxy command should be an open, to establish thesecondary control connection. Enter the command command by the server on the secondary control connection. 
  
+passive  
+Toggle passive mode transfers. Required for certain systems.  
  
 put local-file [[remote-file] 
 Store a local file on the remote machine. If remote-file is 
 left unspecified, the local file name is used after 
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