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From: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Getting Binaries with FTP
Message-ID: <383@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 14:05:03 GMT
References: <7042@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Organization: NCR Comten, St Paul
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In article <7042@swan.ulowell.edu> you write:
>
>			GETTING BINARIES VIA FTP
>
>    FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It allows a person to log into
>another system, and send or receive files on that system. It is mostly used
>with InterNet hosts.
>
>    If your hosts system has FTP, you can access very large amounts of
>archives available on a number of systems, such as Simtel20 or uunet.uu.net.
>We'll talk mostly about Simtel20, and retrieving MS-DOS programs.
>

FTP sounds great but how do systems that don't have FTP either get FTP or
be able to access these libraries.  I have read the "manual" that is 
periodocialy published about SIMTEL20 but have never been able to get the
mail requests for software or even directory listings to work, they seem
to get lost in the mail or ignored.

BTW, is there a way of sending "registered" mail so that a message can be
traced through the network?  It seems that there should be a way of debugging
network problems where mail just dissappears in a somewhat automated way,
without calling all the admins to find if a letter was seen going through
their node.

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