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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: ftp access, also finding your way around the archives...
Message-ID: <1070@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 22 Dec 90 04:58:21 GMT
References: <1990Dec21.212715.2496@cs.mcgill.ca>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1990Dec21.212715.2496@cs.mcgill.ca> peterd@cs.mcgill.ca
	(Peter Deutsch) writes:
>Well, there is at least one email-based ftp-server out
>there, operated by the good folks at Purdue University.
>This allows users to send email requests, and receive
>back the ftp-able files as email. I understand it was
>created to allow BITnet people to fetch stuff from the
>"real world". ;-)

Given that BITNET is probably the *smallest* wide-area network
you hear about on a regular basis, I seriously doubt this.

BITFTP was created specifically for BITNET users, it honors
BITNET's "absurdly low" transfer limits, makes a reasonable
attempt to bash ASCII into EBCDIC, etc.  Non-BITNET users
shouldn't bother with it.  Instead, mail to
archive-server@cc.purdue.edu with a Subject: of
help
and it should return more detailed instructions.

					-=EPS=-