[net.micro.cpm] Question.

kimf@ogcvax.UUCP (Kimf) (07/29/83)

	I have a question.  From reading previous msgs on this
	newsgroup, it seems that MIT has something going on where
	people can log on and transfer software.  Is this true?

	And if it is, how would I, a mere user be able to access this
	software?  Sorry to be so ignorant but I couldn't hold myself
	in check any longer.


				Kimf

FJW@mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP (07/29/83)

From:  Frank J. Wancho <FJW@mit-mc>

If a person already has an account on MC, that person automatically
has access to everything on MC, including the rather large collection
of CP/M-related files currently kept here.

Other folks with accounts on other machines on the ARPANET can also
access the same files, but only via the FTP protocol/program.  They
can transfer any file to their home machine and then download the file
to their micro.

If your host is not on the net, then you might be able to access some
of the same files in net.sources or other similar mechanism.

If all else fails, you can probably access some Remote CP/M system
near you and grab these files from there.  Almost all of these files
either originated on some RCP/M machine or eventually migrate there if
they originate from some author on the net.  As an alternate, if
you're not in a hurry, you can eventually obtain these files from
either the SIG/M or CPMUG collections - where, again, some of these
files started their life.

The Bottom Line: you don't have to have access to MIT-MC to get these
files.

--Frank