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From: pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System Software 6.0.5 available
Summary: FTP & TIME?
Message-ID: <2991@goanna.oz.au>
Date: 20 Mar 90 00:43:44 GMT
References: <39647@apple.Apple.COM>
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Lines: 28

In article <39647@apple.Apple.COM>, mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:

>It has taken a long time to happen, but the disk images for System Software
>6.0.5 are now available on Apple.com for anonymous FTP.  These files are in
>a special sw.license directory.  You may FTP files from this directory, but

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>PLEASE WAIT UNTIL NON-PRIMETIME HOURS TO DOWNLOAD THESE FILES.  Each image is
>over 800K in size, and this much traffic during peak hours must be avoided.
	
    A question.  With international accesses, it becomes dificult to gauge
the TimeZone for a site.  Is there a TIME command in ftp?  Is it possible
for popular sites to include their local time in their sign on message?  It
would prevent bad feelings from all points of view.

Thankyou,
    
    Paul Menon,
    Dept of Computer Science,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 
    124 Latrobe Street,
    Melbourne 3001, 
    Victoria, Australia.

pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU
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