[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Is there a way to access FTP sites without FTP facility?

paulg@iisat.UUCP (Paul Gauthier) (04/23/89)

	I run a "hitchhiker" UUCP site on my personal IBM that can handle
both mail and news. But neither my site or my host site can do anon-FTPing.
Is there a way to acess the libraries stored on FTP sites without using
FTP? I know Simtel-20 has a file server set up, and am aware of how to
use that one. Are there other file servers set up for other sites?

	Is there such a thing as a super-file-server? One that will
take the name of a site and a list of commands and then anon-FTP to it
and pass along the commands for you? Then will mail you any files it
has downloaded along with a transcript of the session? This would be an
interesting project if no one has done it yet (albeit a rather large one).

	Any info you can give me on getting to anon-FTP sites through
file servers or some other method would be greatly appreciated. Reply by
mail or followup to the news if you feel others will benifit from the
reply. Anything I receive that is useful, I will summarize and post to the
net.


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chris@conexch.UUCP (Chris Bailey) (05/03/89)

I also need to be able to have FTP access to sites such as Simtel20, but
have no FTP ability.  First of all, how are you doing FTP from a PC, and
second, what or how do I access Simtel's file s rver?