How do you download FTP files?

[russellnash]

It must be a long time since I did this because last time it worked in Firefox, but you can't do it any more.

For example:

https://temlib.org/AtariForumWiki/index ... _folderxxx

I tried this in the Linux terminal, but it doesn't work.

$ ftp ftp://atari.st/tosroms/patches/foldrxxx.zip
Connected to atari.st.
220 ProFTPD Server (pair Networks, Inc FTP server) [66.39.138.73]
331 Password required for anonymous
530 Login incorrect.
ftp: Login failed
ftp: Can't connect or login to host `atari.st:ftp'
221 Goodbye.

Does anybody know how to do it?

[stephen_usher]

Firefox removed FTP access due to it being "insecure" (even though it was 99.9999999% used anonymously to download publicly accessible data, but "security" zealots don't care).

As for that particular FTP command, it looks like that server doesn't have anonymous access set up.

[rubber_jonnie]

I think the issue is that both of those links don't seem to allow anonymous access, which is odd since most places do allow it, but I can't download anything from either link you gave.

[exxos]

Why using the old-wiki and not the new one?

If the FTP server still works I'll update the wiki page to just host the files instead.

[russellnash]

OK, that has clarified things a lot thanks, looking at general guides on how to do FTP since the browsers stopped doing it was not useful.
I even tried the Epiphany browser thinking it would be old style but it seems to be some kind of google browser now.
I originally had the problem on the LGD website, I then clicked on the wiki link here, later clicked on the link on a search and that is how I landed on the other wiki version.
The file I was trying to download I have somewhere on another hard disk, but the experience just made me wonder how do deal with the issue in future.