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From: OLIVER@calstate.bitnet (OLIVER SEELY)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: RE: Re: ANONYMOUS FTP FROM BITNET
Message-ID: <9009301931.AA18298@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 29 Sep 90 21:09:45 GMT
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There is another problem associated with using FTP (help me out, Dave,
I'm not sure what anonymous FTP is), to retrieve MEGABYTE files.  I
tried to transfer the primate sequence file first to an ELXSI computer
and when I was unsuccessful, I tried to transfer it to my account on
our central Cyber 960.  Well, in both cases I exceeded my memory
allocation but in one (sorry, I cannot remember which) I was unable
to login again until one of the systems analysts "unfroze" the
problem.  FTPs advantage (in my mind at least) lies in its simplicity
of use, but as Dave writes there are some serious problems such as
tying up valuable resources.  Oh, yeah, I forgot to write that
the transfer process had gone on for about 20 minutes before it bombed.

Oliver Seely
CSU Dominguez Hills