Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ssbell!lvkeep!chris
From: chris@lvkeep.UUCP (Chris Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to work BITFTP@PUCC
Message-ID: <00113.AA00113@lvkeep.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 12:33:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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[Die!]

>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.

Use the binary line, it's a requirement.  Also, you can't get a directory
(which is how the fish disks are organized on mcrnext).  You have to go for
the right zoo file.

...so might look like this:

.
.
.
MGET ff222/*
.
.
.

Hope this helps (it will if the server/client supports multiple gets)

chris

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