Exemplo:
Connected to arthur.cs.purdue.edu.
220 arthur.cs.purdue.edu FTP server (Version 6.8) ready.
Name (ftp.cs.purdur.edut:usera): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> get pub/comer/tcpbook.tar bookfile
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for tcpbook.tar (9895469 bytes).
9895469 bytes received in 22.76 seconds (4.3e+02 Kbytes/s).