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From: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Getting Tech Notes
Message-ID: <113300219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 89 10:39:12 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!saa33413    Dec  9 14:03:00 1989


Several people have asked me how to get tech notes from Apple.  I don't know
how FTP works on an IBM mainframe since the one I have access to doesn't
support FTP, so I will have to assume that you are using a UNIX machine.

From the shell type

     ftp apple.com

and press RETURN.  After a few seconds, Apple's machine will prompt you for a
login and a password.  Enter "anonymous" for the login and your login (e.g.,
"saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu") for the password.

Next, enter

     cd /pub/dts/aii/tn
     dir

This gives you a list of categories of tech notes available, abbreviated to 4
letters.  Most of them are fairly mnemonic.  The command

     mget ---/* ~/*

where "---" is the desired category, will dump all tech notes from that 
category into your home directory.  Alternatively,
     
     mget * ~/*

should get every Apple II tech note ever published.  If your home directory
doesn't have the space (mine is only 150K), put the name of a bigger one before
the second "*."

When you're done, enter

     quit

to get out of Apple's computer.  That's it!  Now you can do whatever you want
with your tech notes--print them, download them to your Apple, whatever.  (I
originally downloaded them to a Macintosh for printing because my IIe didn't
have a modem.  You can print the notes on whatever you like, as long as it can
print 80 columns across.)

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