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From: skeeve@pawl.rpi.edu (Sean C. Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Alternatives to SIMTEL20
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Date: 4 Mar 90 00:21:31 GMT
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kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) writes:


>What's a good alternative anonymous FTP site for ibm-pc stuff besides
>SIMTEL20?  I find its very hard to get a connection there.  Either the
>connection times out or there are too many anonymous users.  When I do
>manage to get a connection its very slow and often seems to die
>halfway through a transfer.

>I was under the impression that there were some sites that kept copies of
>the SIMTEL20 archives but I can't seem to find them.  Any suggestions?

  I often use wuarchive.wustl.edu for ftping since it is usually much less
busy, and has a UNIX file structure as opposed to the CP/M (I believe) of
simtel20. 

                                             -Sean Cox

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