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From: rjc@css.itd.umich.edu (Robert John Churchill)
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Subject: Re: Help with FTP
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Date: 26 Apr 91 18:24:45 GMT
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In article <91116.075647SYSMEST@GECRDVM1.BITNET> SYSMEST@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com writes:
>
>I saw a post in mac.games the other day describing a game demo called
>"StrikeJets".  I have no FTP access so I'm using the BITFTP service
>at Princeton Univ.  These are the commands I send and the output I
>get back.  The address I use is bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu.
>
>FTP MAC.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU NETDATA
>USER ANONYMOUS
>CD ARCHIVE/MAC/GAMES/DEMOGAMES
>GET STRIKEJETS.SIT.HQX
>QUIT

Michael Dautermann (gee, do I know him?  :)  ) replies:
  
>This is good... so far... the path is "archive/mac/games/demogames"

>Now this is a mystery... there is and always has been a "demogames"
>folder in the games directory... sometimes, though (very rarely), a 
>file server in AFS is taken down and then, to the rest of the world
>it literally disappears (for me, I see "connection timed out").  
>This might have been the case as I know our developers have been working
>quite hard on improving the AFS system lately.
>Mark, try sending the ftp message again and see if it works this time.
>I'd like to hear you are indeed able to retrieve strikejets.. it's
>there.. it's available for y'all.. go get it.
 
 
Mark, try using lower-case in your requests to the archives. Case is
significant.  As Mike said, the file and directory are both there.
Hope that helps.

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