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From: kcb@hss.caltech.edu (KC Border)
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Subject: Re: ymir.claremont.edu sucks!
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Date: 31 Jan 91 18:51:04 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!!  
>It's pretty buggy, too, it hung up on me serveral times.  
> 
>Administrators of ymir.claremont.edu: if you're listening: 
>consider moving your machine to Unix!  Only 9 years left to catch 
>up with the twentieth century; you can still dump OS/2!!  
> 

I find the material on archives to be a great public benefit.  It may
be a counterexample to the adage that there's no such thing as afree
lunch.  So what if it's not unix.  (I think it's VMS, not OS/2.)  The
administrator doesn't owe you.

If you read your unix man page for ftp you would find that the command
to move up a directory level is   cdup   and it works.

This forum is hardly the place for this kind of whining.

Kim C. Border			Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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				California Institute of Technology
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