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From: smsst5@cisunx.UUCP (Steve M Suhy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish, PD programs
Summary: ftp -i
Message-ID: <14892@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 20:27:08 GMT
References: <6540@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <6540@louie.udel.EDU>, HRUBIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
> 
>    I will appreciate any help anyone can give on how a BITNET user can access
> various PD programs such as the Fred Fish collect, comp.sources.amiga, etc.
> Thanks in advance,
> Harvey              hrubin@uconnvm

On the unix system here at Pitt, we use ftp [file transfer program]. At
prompt , ('$'?), type ftp -i.
it should read 'ftp>'.
type open {name of host}; for Fish disks try uxe.cso.uiuc.edu   or
                                             trantor.umd.edu
It should respond with some Name prompt. type anonymous.
Password prompt appears. type login name.     
Then your in. Type binary to make sure all transfers of programs are
in binary. Should respond with 'Type set to I'.
Then proceed looking thru directories with usual dir and cd commands.
To download a file to your net file, type get {filename}.
It should then have some receiving message and you have it.
Exit when you're finished browsing by typing bye.
When back at system prompt, if file you got has Z extension,
 type uncompress {filename}
If these files after that have uu extensions, type uudecode {filename}.
If they have sh extension, type sh {filename} or get unshar from net.
Once this is done, I'm assuming your net system has these uudecode's and
all installed, then you are ready to download these by kermit.
Type kermit -i. It should read C-kermit>. type send {filename}. Then set
up your receiving terminal to accept the file by menu selection or
what have you with your terminal software. If the file name has a .zoo
extension, I advise you to somehow get a hold of a Zoo program on disk
at home, by probably downloading it when it had the other extensions, and
use it at home. The format for using it, when you have it, is [with
zoo in df0: and .zoo file in df1:] is df0:zoo -extract df1:filename. You
can type this in CLI. For files with extensions .arc, get a hold of an
ARC file that will extract these files. Then type df0:arc x df1:filename.
It should work. Anyways, that is the way I do it. It may be different
because of different systems, but hope it gets you somewhere.

             -Steve Suhy
             -University of Pittsburgh