Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hp-pcd!hplsla!hpubvwa!grlab!scott From: scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How to work BITFTP@PUCC Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 90 15:15:46 GMT References: <1990Feb20.121818.23551@aucs.uucp> Sender: news@grlab.UUCP Organization: Graphicus, Inc., Kirkland, WA USA Lines: 80 In-reply-to: 840445m@aucs.uucp's message of 20 Feb 90 12:18:18 GMT Regarding How to work BITFTP@PUCC; 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. The problem is that ffxxx is a directory. I usually stick a DIR command after every CD command, so I can tell what's there when I mess up the GET or whatever command. What you need to do is something like... FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE USER anonymous CD amiga/fish BINARY DIR CD ff222 DIR GET MemGauge.zoo memgauge.zoo QUIT NOTES: -If it is a UNIX system (and you are, too), you can ALWAYS use the BINARY command. I've got a GnuEmacs function that I use (in case that's useful)... ;; Setup a mail message to look like this... ;; ;; To: uw-beaver!BITFTP%pucc.princeton.edu ;; Bcc: scott ;; Subject: FTP archive-request to mrcnext.xxx.xxx.xx ;; --text follows this line-- ;; FTP mrcnext.xxx.xxx.xx ;; USER anonymous ;; BINARY ;; DIR ;; QUIT (defun ftp-request (node) "Send a mail message to the Anon-FTP mail server." (interactive "sNode name: \n") (if (boundp 'mail-setup-hook) (setq sv-hook mail-setup-hook) (setq sv-hook nil)) (setq mail-self-blind t) (setq mail-setup-hook '(lambda () (end-of-buffer) (insert (concat "FTP " node " USER anonymous BINARY DIR QUIT")) (beginning-of-buffer) (re-search-forward "^DIR") (beginning-of-line) )) (mail nil "uw-beaver!BITFTP%pucc.princeton.edu" (concat "FTP archive-request to " node)) (setq mail-self-blind nil) (setq mail-setup-hook sv-hook) ) -- Scott Blachowicz E-mail: scott@grlab.UUCP USPS: Graphicus ..or.. ...!hpubvwa!grlab!scott 150 Lake Str S, #206 VoicePh: 206/828-4691 Kirkland, WA 98033 FAX: 206/828-4236