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From: rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Him1 archives....
Message-ID: <12154@hall.cray.com>
Date: 14 Dec 88 21:24:29 GMT
References: <1370@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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In article <1370@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes:
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=I tried to check out what was on him1.cc.umich.edu (35.1.1.43) and I was
=not able to list the files on the machine.  I am on a unix machine.  Is
=there some special command to send to him1 to get a listing?
=
=Jules....
=-- 

having tried the very same thing yesterday (12/13), i figured it out:

1) all the files are arc format, some arc521b, some older arc

2) it is not a full implimentation of ftp as far as i can tell (i.e. mget
   does not _SEEM_ to work)

3) you MUST be in ascii type to do ls and MUST be in binary type to
   get/put

4) "ls" is similar to ls under unix, i.e. it lists files but the wild card 
   is "?" NOT "*" ( try "ls ?"  for list of all files, "ls A?" for all files
   starting in "A", etc.)

5) as far as i can tell, him1 ftp is case insensitive but your host ftp
   will store the files upper case if u ask for them that way.

i wish howard would have mentioned these simple things in his earlier
posting...irregardless, it is an excellent source for material (especially
now that i am at a company with ftp access :^).

-bill
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