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From: dbert@geech.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert)
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Subject: Re: Apple.com
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Date: 1 Mar 91 11:24:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.005538.2270@midway.uchicago.edu> sie6@quads.uchicago.edu (scott alexander siege) writes:
>OK. You are exactly right. Apple.Com works fine.
>For whatever reason there are two ways to log on to Apple.com via FTP.
>One is FTP.APPLE.COM and the other is simply APPLE.COM.  When you log on with
>the FTP you find that little is available whereas when you use just APPLE.COM
>everything is available.
>I do not even pretend to understand why this is, it just is.
>
>--Scott

apple.com and ftp.apple.com are *not* the same machine.  They have different
names and different IP numbers.  If you check out the directory listing for
ftp.apple.com (get the file ls-lR) you can see there is quite a bit more stuff
in the dts directory there than in the one on apple.com.  Quite a bit more.
Perhaps an Apple employee might be able to find out for us if/when that
ftp.apple.com will be fully open for anonymous ftp? :)
--
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Doug Siebert                                     dbert@albert.ai.mit.edu
MBA Student (2nd year)
The University of Iowa