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From: fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to work BITFTP@PUCC
Message-ID: <989.25e30235@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 02:03:48 GMT
References: <1990Feb20.121818.23551@aucs.uucp>
Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
Lines: 49

In article <1990Feb20.121818.23551@aucs.uucp>, 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) writes:
> I have been trying to get fish disks from mrcnext.xxx.xxx (whatever) and
> have been unable to so far.  Here is what I do ...
> 
> FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE
> USER anonymous 
> CD amiga/fish
> BINARY                   ---->> I tried with and without this line
> GET ff222
> GET ffxxx
> QUIT
> 
> Everything works fine except the GET commands return an error something
> like "file is not of simple type" or something like that.  If anyone
> out there does this and could send me the commands to do it, I would be
> greatly appreciative.

Very, very close!  The directory structure is:

/amiga/fish/ff001
/amiga/fish/ff002
       .
       .
       .
/amiga/fish/ff299
/amiga/fish/ff300


Try this instead:

FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE
USER anonymous 
CD amiga/fish
CD ffxxx         <--- Where xxx is the number of the fish disk you want
BINARY
GET *
QUIT

I may not be exactly correct, but close.  The 'GET' command may need to be
a 'MGET'.  I don't remember which.  This SHOULD send you in UUENCODED format, 
all zoo files for Fred Fish disk xxx.

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