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From: dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Please Help Me!!!!!
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Date: 8 Jun 90 17:50:53 GMT
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In article <13084@ulysses.att.com> mas@ulysses.att.com (Michael A. Schoen) writes:

>b) Exactly how does one go about getting software from the archives on sumex?
>I tried 'ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu', and got a host unreachable message.
>I know that the host is not unreachable, because I could get to the login level
>with 'itelnet sumex-aim.stanford.edu'.  Please give full instructions on how
>to use ftp (along with other good mac ftp sites)

	Try IP number here--maybe your ftpd and inetd are using different
host lookup table file (usually it's /etc/hosts).  Here's IP address of
sumex.

sumex-aim.stanford.edu	36.44.0.6

	(For sure, IP number is absolute address of host like your phone
number.  internet address is just an alias and won't work unless it's
registered in your local host file in case of ftp)

>c) how can i transfer text files from my account at att to my mac?  I have a 
>dial-in access number.

	BSD already have xmodem package--it can do both xy modem with other
setups.  I myself is using even better zmodem package.  If you are using
xmodem package and your communication program has xmodem capability, you just
go:

xmodem -[sr]a text.file #r for receive and s for send

	But you are working on Macintosh and that means you can use quick
and dirty way--just use cut and paste--to paste a text, you open text with
text editor or word processor, cut any text you want, type in "cat >file"
then paste text directly from your communication appl.  When done, just
push control-D and you are done.
	To capture text is even easier--you just select from your comm appl
window and cut or copy.  That's it!  (My comm appl is Zterm and this is
the best I know and I recommend that you use it, too)

>d) how can i get the comp.mac.binaries files to be usuable.  I assume that
>first I would transfer the text to my mac, but then what???

	Okay, you first save the article, which is in binhex format.  Then
you truncate headers and merge article if necessary.  Then send/capture text
as text--not binary then use binhex to extract binary contents. (you can
use Stuffit151, too)
	Even easier is using mcvert on unix site.  It allows multiple
file unbinhexing which are splitted to multiple files, as well as batch
unbinhexing concatanated binhex file with header and other garbages.
the only thing you have to do is type in "mcvert binhex-file" and mcvert
takes care of the rest.  in this case you save all articles in
comp.binaries.mac and "mcvert ~/News/Comp.binaries.mac" and voila!  you get
all of them.  But remember, you usually sort save order in order to unbinhex
concatanated articles in mcvert.  Sometimes some files are not posted or
not posted in order.  To get a copy, you ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu
(I'm kind of tired of discussing article:  I don't know how many people
asked me for mcvert--I'm thinking of posting it to comp.sources.mac).
	Enjoy MacLife with Unix account!

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