[comp.lang.pascal] Simtel questions

stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) (04/21/91)

Can anyone explain these two problems to me?  First, the simtel computer 
seems to be very ambivalent about whether or not it understands the "pwd"
command, as this session fragment shows:

 ftp> pwd
 500 I never heard of the PWD command. Try HELP.
 ftp> help
 Commands may be abbreviated.  Commands are: 

 !               cr              macdef          proxy           send
 $               delete          mdelete         sendport        status
 account         debug           mdir            put             struct
 append          dir             mget            pwd             sunique
                                                 ^^^


Second, it won't let me download files, e.g.:


ftp> get ZWP.ZIP
ZWP.ZIP: Permission denied


Any help would be appreciated.

Glenn Stone
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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (04/21/91)

In article <1991Apr20.171206.9148@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes:
>Can anyone explain these two problems to me?  First, the simtel computer 
>seems to be very ambivalent about whether or not it understands the "pwd"
>command, as this session fragment shows:
:

If Keith Petersen sees your posting he knows more accurately about
your particular dilemma than I do.  But in the meanwhile one
relevant piece of information.  Simtel20 archives are not on a Unix
machine, like perhaps most of the other anonymous ftp archives.  So
you should adapt your usage to a VAX/VMS style. 

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