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From: mhw@wittsend.lbp.harris.com (Michael H. Warfield (Mike))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: UUCP --> FTP
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Date: 20 Sep 89 21:49:53 GMT
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In article <89258.213225CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>I need to download files from a machine running strictly UUCP to a machine
>running only FTP.  I've heard that this is impossible.

	No.  This is possible but only if you have access to another machine
somewhere in the middle that can play both games.  Out here in UUCP land our
problem is generally the reverse, where we want to get something from an FTP
only site.  That requires something fancy like a LISTSERV system.

	If you mean downloading directly with no help in-between from
another system, you are out of luck.  If it's not something gigantic and
your uucp/internet neighbors don't object (CHECK!!) have the uucp site
encode it and mail it to you.  If it's an autonomous archive site, wwwweeeellll
so much for that idea.

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