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From: jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: How to find FTP sites
Message-ID: <1991May29.194948.10259@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 23:49:47 GMT
References: <9105291721.AA13524@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM writes:

> The question often arises: where can I get "foo" via anonymous FTP (FTP
> is the Internet File Transfer Protocol)?
> 
> There is a nice database listing Internet archives; you can access it via
> Telnet.  Here's how:
> 
>         ftp quiche.cs.mcgill.ca
> 
>         login% archie
>         (Lots of introductory messages; use "help" to learn more)
>         archie> prog forth
> 
> The "prog forth" query lists over 100 Forth things available on various
> FTP sites.  I searched the listing for "atari", and found 2 places where
> Forthmacs is available:
> 
>         watserv1.waterloo.edu  /micro/atari-st/forthmac.arc
>         terminator.cc.umich.edu  /atari/languages/forth.arc
> 
> Obviously, you can look for other things besides Forth; I have used archie
> to find all sorts of things.
> 
> (Gary, Doug; perhaps this "archie" information should go in the monthly
> announcement).
> 
> Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM
> (Thanks to John Gilmore for telling me about archie)

I tried this, but got a "login incorrect" at the "login% archie" command.

Any idea what gives ?  I'm calling from a VAX VMS system running VMS 5.x.

thanks,

- Jonathan

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