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From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Looking for help with: nagel.bmp on cica
Message-ID: <cchapman.669649159@romeo>
Date: 22 Mar 91 13:39:19 GMT
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In <1991Mar21.175221.3258@amd.com> jmw@brahms.amd.com (Mike Wincn) writes:

>I recently tried to download nagel.bmp files from cica.cica.indiana.edu
>by sending:

>	ftp cica.cica.indiana.edu uuencode
>	user anonymous jmw@brahms.amd.com
>	cd /pub/pc/win3
>	get INDEX
>	binary
>	cd bmp
>	get nagels.zip
>	get nagel004.zip
>	get samfox.zip
>	get zipaper.zip
>	quit

>But only the 'samfox.zip' and INDEX files arrived -- everything else returned 
>the message: 'No such file or directory'.  The INDEX file shows nagel*.zip and 
>zipaper.zip in ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/bmp, though a second attempt returned the
>same error messages. 

Don't rely on what the INDEX files say.  They may not necessarily be up to
date.  You can use "ls" or "dir" to find out what is in remote directories.
The following is what is in the bmp directory on cica:

total 2742
-rw-r--r--  1 0        31           1306 Mar 13 12:11 INDEX
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20          20676 Dec 16 20:28 apple.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         212849 Feb  3 00:58 bears.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         186222 Feb  9 04:43 dirty_pa.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         126005 Dec 27 02:41 dp-22.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         151944 Feb  9 04:43 dp-23.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         115819 Feb  9 04:43 dp-24.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         136099 Feb  9 04:44 dp-25.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         114625 Feb  9 04:44 dp-26.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         135652 Feb  3 00:58 epcot.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         180205 Dec 27 02:41 kiki-1.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20          14552 Feb 10 04:48 mad.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         124022 Dec 27 02:42 maison-4.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         182813 Jan 28 13:27 miscbmp.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20          22306 Jan 15 13:54 ncc1701d.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         172528 Dec 27 02:42 orange-2.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         179185 Feb  3 00:59 paint.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         300918 Feb 21 15:00 pegasus.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20          82451 Dec 27 02:42 ranma-1.zip
-r--r--r--  1 9000     20         171003 Jan 12 16:47 samfox.zip
drwxr-xr-x  2 0        20            512 Mar 21 10:05 util

Chuck

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