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From: NOSES@DBNINF5.BITNET (Achim Patzner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: BITFTP / FTP questions
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Date: 14 Mar 90 18:24:51 GMT
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>    FTP  apple.com
>    USER anonymous
>    ASCII
>    DIR
>    QUIT

> Now this directory looks nothing like the directory that Mark Johnson of
> Apple puts out on the net, an extract of which follows.

Try LS...

> TEST 2 - GETTING A FILE:

> My second test was to attemp to pull down one of the human interface
> notes,  hin-000.txt.

>    FTP apple.com
>    USER anonymous
>    ASCII
>    GET /human.interface/notes/hin-000.txt
>    QUIT

> Is this the proper syntax for specifying the file in question?

Not quite... You have to specify a FULL pathname (starting with /pub) or
use CD to get to the subdirectory containing those files.

> |        Chris Shatara       |      Internet:    shatara@memit.enet.dec.com |

Now something you might not like to hear... To be able to receive files
you either have to be on the Internet and able to use FTP or you have to
be on BITNET. BITFTP is forwarding files as BITNET NETDATA; no gateway will
be able to forward THAT anywhere outside BITNET. (I wanted to tell this
in my last note which -I really *LOVE* our mailer- was replaced by a
private message to Murph Sewall.) So nobody who isn't on BITNET should use
BITFTP; it's just a waste of our bandwidth.


Achim

(Noses@DBNINF5.BITNET -preferred- or ...!unido!bnu!patzner)