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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP Servers
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Date: 26 Dec 90 17:29:22 GMT
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In article <1033.27783F09@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes:
>I'm having some difficulty connecting to ux1.cso.uiuc.edu where the
>Fish disks are supposedly located.  It says my site is not registered,
>and to contact my administrator.  Unfortunately, I doubt that Amiga
>software is a big priority at my university :-( so is there a way I
>can get around this, or is there somewhere else I can obtain the 
>fish disks?

I have another ftp problem, maybe it could be answered at the same time? :-)

Having no access to ftp, I use bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu to do the ftp for
me, from ux1 and abcdf20, specifying BINARY. I get the file UUencoded by
email and UUdecode it (I have tried both on a SparcStation and on my Amiga).
The files are transferred from Sparc to MS-DOS diskettes using mtools, which
has binary transfer as default. From MS-DOS to Amiga I use DOS-2-DOS, which
also has binary transfer as default.

All files are corrupted, but not totally screwed up. If I have UUdecoded
a Zoo archive and does zoo -l archive, it lists 2 or 3 files from the
archive before complaining about corrupt file.

I have gotten one program (HamSharp, thanks!) by 'normal email' (not from
the BITFTP server). I UUdecoded it on the Sun4 and moved it to my Amiga.
It ran without any problems.

Anyone with a solution? It seems like the ftp pucc does gives corrupted
files, but if it were so, surely many other people would have run into
it and complained?

Thanks in advance,
Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se