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From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith B. Petersen )
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM archives?
Message-ID: <9729@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Feb 89 07:05:00 GMT
References: <309@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) <w8sdz>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <309@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> packer@129.71.11.14 (Michael A Packer) writes:
>Could someone please tell me where the best place to FTP to is 
>that contains a good selection of PC software?
>
>I tried wsmr-simtel20.army.nil [26.0.0.74] but could not get connected.

The "connection refused" problem on Simtel20 has been fixed.  There are
a lot of anonymous ftp jobs and you may sometimes get a message saying
please try again later.  Just keep trying like you would a busy phone
number.  One good way is to set up a hot key on your terminal program to
send the command:  open 26.0.0.74  terminated by a carriage return.
Using the IP number instead of the host name avoids a slight delay
caused by your host having to look up the number in the host table or
domain server.

Problems connecting to Simtel20 should be reported to
ACTION@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL.  If you don't tell us about problems
we won't know about them.  Remember that sign you've seen in some
stores: "If you like our [product|service] tell others; if not tell US!"

-- 
Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74]
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