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From: jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ymir.claremont.edu sucks!
Summary: ymir's pretty all right.  VMS, on the other hand...
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Date: 31 Jan 91 05:11:49 GMT
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In article <29734@usc> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

> It seems the only copy of the most-recent EmTeX distribution (minus
> fonts) in the civilised world is to be found at
> ymir.claremont.edu which is a non-unix ftp server!
>
> Imagine: you can cd into a directory but not cd .. out of it!!

No, you can't use the command `cd ..', but you can use `cd [-]'.
You need to think more like the natives.  :-)

> It's pretty buggy, too, it hung up on me serveral times.

This also happens to me quite often when using other ftp servers, most
notably on prep.ai.mit.edu, which is, last I checked, a Un*x site.


BTW, this shouldn't be misinterpreted as a defense of, or apology for,
VMS, Digital Equipment Corporation, or Ken Olsen Himself.

--
John W. Eaton                                  ``When in Rome...''
jwe@che.utexas.edu
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin