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From: dj@ctron.com (DJ Delorie)
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Subject: Re: Help with BITFTP access to GRAPE?
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Date: 14 May 91 13:15:28 GMT
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In article <b5dv58.7h9@wang.com>, DAVE.JENKINS@OFFICE.WANG.COM (David E. Jenkins) writes:

> >From: Princeton BITNET FTP Server <BITFTP1@pucc.princeton.edu>
> >To: DAVE.JENKINS@office.wang.com
> >Subject:  BITFTP REPLY
> >
> >12:44:43 > FTP grape.ecs.clarkson.edu UUENCODE
> >12:44:43 > USER anonymous
> >12:44:44 >>>> Access to GRAPE is not currently supported,
> >12:44:44 >>>> due to protocol difficulties.

Grape is sysV, and it's FTP doesn't support BITFTP.

> The obvious questions I have are...
>      a) What does this really mean?   (TCP/IP versions?, Wierdness?)
>      b) Is there anything I can do about it?  (Magic incantations?)
>      c) Is there another way to get there?    (Other FTP Servers, etc.?)

I've gotten permission from the friendly neighborhood sysop at
Clarkson to upload g++ on their Unix archive as well as the DOS
archive.  The unix archive has its own mail-service system, called the
Archive Server.

To get instructions:

  % mail archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
  Subject:
  help
  index msdos/djgpp
  send msdos/djgpp readme
  ^D

The g++ archive is msdos/djgpp.

DJ
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