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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ymir.claremont.edu sucks!
Message-ID: <7458@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 1 Feb 91 14:02:10 GMT
References: <29734@usc>
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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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.

What are you talking about.  I have no problems
GRINCH> ftp ymir.claremont.edu
%FTP-I-ATTEMPTING, Attempting to connect to host YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
220 YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU MultiNet FTP Server Process 2.2(11) at Fri 1-Feb-91 6:01A
M-PST
FTP> user anonymous
331 anonymous user ok. Send real ident as password.
Password:
230-Guest User DOUG logged into LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS] at Fri  1-Feb-91 06:01, job 24
400aa1.
230 Directory and access restrictions apply
FTP> cd tex
250 Connected to LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX].
FTP> cd ..
250 Connected to LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS].
>
>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!!
In case you haven't checked, ymir is a microvax II running VMS.  VMS is
not OS/2.
>
>Administrators of terminator.cc.umich.edu: if you're listening:
>couldya please get the latest EmTeX!?
>
>-- 
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
>                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
>_______________________________________________________________________________


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Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
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Like many of the features of UNIX, UUCP appears theoretically 
unworkable... - DEC Professional, April 1990