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From: adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Posting binaries
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.094531.26118@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk>
Date: 19 Dec 90 09:45:31 GMT
References: <LDweT7w163w@mantis.UUCP> <1990Dec3.103328.7302@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> <1990Dec3.141051.4103@cns.umist.ac.uk> <1990Dec5.1238 <167303@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <1504@tharr.UUCP> <1990Dec17.134221.27584@ugle.unit.no>
Reply-To: adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin)
Organization: British Aerospace (Dynamics), Stevenage
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In article <1990Dec17.134221.27584@ugle.unit.no> dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) writes:
>It is quite possible to access files from a FTP server *without* having
>ftp-access.... So I cannot see *any* reason why we shouldn`t have an
>archive stored that way....
>One way to access FTP-sites via mail is to mail "BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET":

This doesn't work work for everyone (as it says in the HELP file): somewhere
between here and there is an IBM machine, and the few files I retrieved were
garbled by ASCII/EBCDIC conversion.

Adam
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