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Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: simtel20?
Message-ID: <1043@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 13:17:50 GMT
References: <11626@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <11626@bellcore.bellcore.com>, thf@wind.bellcore.com (Theodore Feyler) says:
> 
> 	Alot of people talk of getting nifty stuff off simtel20.  Well, I
> can't seem to connect with anything resembling simtel20 through my ftp.
> I have tried simtel20 & simtel20.army.mil, and both are unknown hosts.

Try simtel20.arpa, if that isn't in your hosts file. Just do a

open 26.0.0.74

Get the file ARCHIVES-INFO, or some similar name and read it carefully.
There are some strange things about ftp'ing from simtel20 because
it is a 36-bit machine running TOPS-20.

I'd had good luck finding stuff there.

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