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From: mkent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Marty Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sumex Help?!?!?
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Date: 18 Mar 89 04:51:10 GMT
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In article <8Y8Jp9y00WB9QGsbtL@andrew.cmu.edu> dp22+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Bruce Pinkus) writes:
>Hi all..
>
>    Can you please direct me to an on-line help file concerning how to use
>sumex, and other public archives of software..  I see people posting stuff
>to this and comp.binaries, but I don't know how to use them.  Thanks.

The standard way I use sumex is to download the latest technical notes.
The way I do the download is to use FTP.  If you in fact have FTP on your
home system, you can proceed more or less as follows:
run ftp 
connect to sumex.stanford.edu
login as "anonymous" - sumex will ask for your user name as a password
cd to info-mac - this is the top-level directory for mac stuff on sumex
examine the contents of directories with dir or ls
you'll see some readme* files in info-mac - use ftp to "get" them
use "bye" or "quit" to exit ftp
read the files for more info...

That's about it...


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