Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!maccs!johns
From: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Beginner's guide to downloading
Keywords: download FTP UUCP binaries
Message-ID: <25A987F7.12893@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 9 Jan 90 06:43:03 GMT
References: <4@amsdev.UUCP> <12771@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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>  Anonymous ftp is neat and simple. Let's say the hostname is uunet.uu.net
>  do the following:
>
>  ftp uunet.uu.net
>
     I try this on my site, and it doesn't like it.  But if I go something
like 123.0.1.2 I get through (normally).  Question is, how do I convert
an address like the one you show to numbers like I need?  Thanks.


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"After all is said and done,                       John Schmitt
 a lot more is said than done."                    johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Don't blame anybody for what I say.                SCHMITTJ@SCIvax.mcmaster.ca