Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives Subject: Re: Changing Directories on Simtel20 Message-ID: <7651@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 30 Jun 91 04:07:42 GMT References: <1991Jun30.030733.28412@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Reply-To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Distribution: comp Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 45 ffujita@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Frank Fujita) writes: >I'm familiar with changing directories via ftp on unix systems. >However the SIMTEL20 systems seems to use a different system. >Could someone enlighten my ignorance? SIMTEL20's directory structure is similar to MS-DOS. SIMTEL20: PD1: MSDOS: C:\MSDOS\FILEDOCS ftp> cd pd1: If the angle brackets cause trouble with your FTP program you can use square brackets. ftp> cd pd1:[msdos.filedocs] The PD1: is the disk drive. The first name inside the brackets is the name of the top-level directory. The second name inside the brackets is the name of the subdirectory. Once you have done a cd to the PD1: device you may omit it from all further commands. ftp> cd Some FTP users who are used to Unix may attempt to "cd .." to drop down one level in the directory tree. That doesn't work on SIMTEL20. You can save yourself a lot of typing if you cd to the directory where the files you want are located. You can then type just the filename instead of the whole path. ftp> cd pd1: ftp> get aaaread.me ftp> type binary ftp> get simlist.arc ftp> bye Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND