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From: dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: PutFile bug
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.122334.15217@idt.unit.no>
Date: 10 Dec 90 12:23:34 GMT
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The answer is simple:
Use the !RSDOS utility obtainable from info-server@newcastle.ac.uk instead!
It works rom the desktop, and implements a adfs-like msdos filing-system...
Also, it will give you the choice of filename-convention to use, optional CR<>LF conversion, and is much faster than putfile/getfile....

I quote from the "Index"-file:

To retrieve a file a file from the archive, send a message to 
info-server@newcastle.ac.uk with the following content:

line-limit 1000
request: sources
topic: archimedes filename
request: end

where filename is replaced by the name of the file, as shown below.
A filename of 'index' will send you the latest version of this message.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[....]

There are quite a lot of files....

--
Dag Haakon Myrdal, student of electronics
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About MS-DOS: 
	    "... an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern
            kitchen appliances would sneer at...."
		   - Dave Trowbridge, _Computer Technology Review_, Aug 90