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From: ckeele@oregon.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: simtel20
Message-ID: <20934.28232673@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 04:24:03 GMT
References: <EDWONG.91May4160603@bucsf.bu.edu>
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To get files from simtel20, you first need to get the ftpbin.exe from
Clarkson, then ftp to simtel20 

     ftp simtel20.army.mil
     login anonymous
     password (your id)

If you get a directory of the root (dir) there will be a file with 
a list of MSDOS subdirectories, get it using 
 
     get remotefilename.ext localfilename.ext  {the last digit is not necessary,
                                                and localfilename is optional}

You can use ! to get a shell to look at the directory file.

To change to a subdirectory, I found that you need to use the
quote function

     quote
     cd pd1:<msdos.education>

You then can get the file 00-index.txt, or you can use the dir command
to list files.

for binary files (almost anything that does not have a .txt extention)
you need to use the binary mode

     binary
 
The hash function is also useful to see the progress of the file transfer.

     hash
 
To get multiple files, you can use mget

     mget


CLIFFORD KEELE
CKEELE@DONALD.UOREGON.EDU