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From: cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos)
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Subject: Re: Telnetting to HPBBS and Downloading???
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Date: 25 Jan 91 02:01:26 GMT
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Another option, rather than adding BTOA and/or UUENCODE protocols as
Jan suggests, is to go thru and set up links from the attached files
to a directory on that file system (akcs is running under UNIX,
remember).  Then, if the /pub directory is on a different file system,
you put in a symbolic link from w/in pub to the directory with the
hard links to the attached files.  Now ftp transfer is readily
available for all of the files.  This would not take too long to do
for those files already there, and if doing this for files added in
the future cannot be automated (I'm not familiar enough with akcs to
know--I don't even know if it is a commercial or free/shareware
program) doing the additions by hand still won't take very long;
traffic on the bbs doesn't seem to be THAT huge.  

Any takers??

-JimC
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