young@ut-emx.UUCP (Young) (07/18/90)
Hi.
There are *LOTS OF* PC/MS-DOS utilities and public domain
(or shareware) programs available from <wuarchive.wustl.edu>.
You can *easily* ftp them.
Note: ftp Site Name - wuarchive.wustl.edu
Login Name - anonymous
Password - guest
Go to the directory "mirrors/msdos". You will find surprisingly many
sub-directories and programs (including sources and executables).
For example, in the directory "editor" there are quite a few public
domain or shareware editors. For example:
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 118665 Nov 8 1989 j414doc.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 141108 Nov 8 1989 j414exe.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 351831 Nov 8 1989 j414src.arc
are documents and programs of JOVE (Jonathan's own version of Emacs).
It is a very very nice PC-Emacs (even though Unix versions are also
available). One problem is that to print the manual, you need Unix. If
you know Emacs, definitely you don't need the manual.
Most programs are arc'ed or zip'ed. You can find executables that
un-arc (e.x. PKXARC.EXE) or de-zip (DEZIP.EXE) them.
Browse sub-directories such as "arc-lbr" and "zip".
Each sub-directories has an ASCII text "00-index.txt".
Get and read them.
Note: To ftp binary files, in respons to the "ftp>" prompt,
enter "binary" (sure without quotes).
<--- VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT
To ftp files, enter "get <filename>" or
"mget <filename with wildcards>".
Enter "?" or "help" to get a list of ftp commands.
I know several ftp site addresses more that provide
MS/PC-DOS programs. If you need, send me an E-Mail:
young@emx.utexas.edu (Arpa/Internet)
Enjoy.
Young
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The following is a sample ftp-connection.
% ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu
Connected to wuarchive.wustl.edu.
220 wuarchive.wustl.edu FTP server (......) ready.
Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:young): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd mirrors/msdos
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 217
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 512 May 20 02:17 abc
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 512 Jul 2 01:23 ada
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 512 Jul 2 00:29 aijournal
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 512 May 29 09:33 allcharge
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 512 Jun 14 02:28 apl
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 2560 Jul 8 00:31 arc-lbr
.
. (Too many to list)
.
rwxr-xr-x 2 20002 1536 Jul 14 03:13 zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 2048 Jul 16 03:36 zmodem
drwxr-xr-x 2 20002 512 May 13 06:55 zoo
226 Transfer complete.
remote: -l
8169 bytes received in 29 seconds (0.28 Kbytes/s)
ftp> cd editor
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 11265
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 8745 Jul 14 19:00 00-index.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 88970 Mar 3 18:00 51grdrvs.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 58018 Oct 6 1988 ace124.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 46287 Dec 19 1989 ahed06.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 49365 Apr 30 19:00 aled15.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 5821 Aug 13 1989 asc2ws.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 131248 Apr 28 19:00 bingo11b.zip
.
. (Too many to list)
.
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 15394 Feb 1 18:00 wsen.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 29670 May 30 1988 xword223.arc
-rw-r--r-- 1 20002 2467 Mar 18 18:00 zwp.zip
226 Transfer complete.
remote: -l
6723 bytes received in 2.1 seconds (3.1 Kbytes/s)
ftp> binary
... ... ...
ftp> get xword223.arc
... ... ...
ftp> bye