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From: bbs@bluemoon.UUCP (BBS login)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: ftpeeing
Message-ID: <1cRuq1w163w@bluemoon.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 90 01:01:23 GMT
Organization: Blue Moon BBS (614) 868-9980 & 9982 & 9984
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        Hi all!

        I just recently got an account on a VAX at Ohio State and there I 
got a taste of FTP.  The idea is really cool <and fast!>, but I got 
problems anyhow.  The basic problem is with getting the files ftpeed to my 
VAX account to my ST. 

        Here's why:  My account doesn't have the 'privilege' of calling in 
to the vax from my house and the VAXstation doesn't support the ms-dos (ST 
compatible) format.

        Here are a few solutions I tried:

-->     There's a utility called pcdisk available from DCL Command which 
writes in messy-dos format, but High Density only (unreadable by ST--I 
tried it).

-->>    There's a facility somewhere at Ohio State which does the transfer 
onto a floppy from one's account in messy dos format, but they probably 
got 1.2 or 1.44 meg drives too.

-->>>   Sysop of Bluemoon.uucp offered to help (greatly appreciated 
effort), by rendering his 1.2 or 1.44 meg drive so that I could transfer files
written in hd format to my ST over the modem.

        The last two solutions are OK, except 
        that I don't wanna be running around with disks like a crazy 
hacker all the time.

        Has anybody got any other suggestions?  How do you take care of 
your FTP?


                        Archbold
                        osu-cis!n8emr!bluemoon!archbold

Disclaimer:  I haven't seen Veronica lately!