kfk9673@ritcv.UUCP (Karl Kingston) (12/13/87)
I found out that you can't access SIMTEL20 from UUCP and BITNET. The reasons which I got stated that there was too much congestion on the networks so they shut the thing down. It can be accessed by FTP though. Thanks to all you people out there who responded to my original inquiry. Thanks... Karl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Kingston UUCP: ..!rochester!ritcv!kfk9673 BITNET: KFK9673@RITVAX
asf@sbcs (Alan S. Fink) (12/14/87)
In article <19@ritcv.UUCP> kfk9673@ritcv.UUCP (Karl Kingston) writes: >I found out that you can't access SIMTEL20 from UUCP and BITNET. The >reasons which I got stated that there was too much congestion on the >networks so they shut the thing down. It can be accessed by FTP though. > >Thanks to all you people out there who responded to my original inquiry. > >Thanks... Karl > While we're on the subject... much to my delight, I am finally able to connect to SIMTEL20 via ftp. Now the problem: What is the proper user name and password to actually get onto the system? Simply connecting doesn't do me a whole lot of good! Sigh.... Thanks is advance, Alan -- Alan S. Fink UUCP: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax}!sbcs!asf ARPA: asf%sunysb.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA CSNET: asf@sunysb.edu
boneill@hawk.CS.ULowell.Edu (Debugger) (12/18/87)
In article <896@sbcs.UUCP> asf@sbcs.UUCP (Alan S. Fink) writes: > >While we're on the subject... much to my delight, I am finally able to >connect to SIMTEL20 via ftp. Now the problem: What is the proper user >name and password to actually get onto the system? Simply connecting >doesn't do me a whole lot of good! Sigh.... > >Thanks is advance, >Alan > >-- >Alan S. Fink >UUCP: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax}!sbcs!asf >ARPA: asf%sunysb.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA >CSNET: asf@sunysb.edu When it asks for a user name, type 'anonymous'. It will take that and tell you to use your real ID as a password. Type your system name for this. ============================================================================ Brian O'Neill University of Lowell boneill@hawk.cs.ulowell.edu "There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute." Captain Jean-Luc Picard - ST:TNG "Justice"
zinzow@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (12/19/87)
I've recently seen a note that someone is setting up a file gateway that has a bitnet listserver that ftp's files from simtel20 and forwards them on bitnet. I think it was LISTSERV at RPICICGE but I don't know how it works yet.
emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm) (12/20/87)
In article <45900099@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, zinzow@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > I've recently seen a note that someone is setting up a file gateway > that has a bitnet listserver that ftp's files from simtel20 and forwards > them on bitnet. I think it was LISTSERV at RPICICGE but I don't know > how it works yet. Sender: Public domain software servers <PCSERV-L@RPICICGE> From: "John S. Fisher" <FISHER@RPICICGE> Subject: This is what I have... One of my original justifications for starting this list was to encourage sharing ideas, approaches, and software for main-frame support of micro- computer software and bulletin-board systems. The ARCUTIL and PDUTIL programs are examples of software I use with the public-domain software file server running here. I am curious as to what other people might be doing. Are any of you managing file servers and/or BBS you'd be willing to describe to this list? (I know of one person already looking to clone someone else's BBS, if he can only find one.) As I stated, above, I run a file server. It is actually an interface to access the SIMTEL20.ARPA collection from Bitnet. (SIMTEL20 shutdown its mail-based file server about the same time my host joined the Internet.) I use LISTSERV to receive the requests for files from the SIMTEL20 archives, and I have a service machine that actually fetches files via FTP and manages a local cache. Files can be sent to the requestor in netdata, punch, or mail format. Files can be sent as-is (meaning binary image), uuencoded, or translated to EBCDIC (assuming the original is an ASCII text file). The only(?) ugly thing about the server is that since it is playing "front-end" for SIMTEL20, it is obligated to suppprt the SIMTEL20 file naming scheme. A typical request to my server would look something like this: /PDGET PD:<CPM.ARC-LBR>UNARC16.ARK ( UUENCODE Users can also get directory listings with something like: /PDDIR PD:<CPM>ZCPR*.* (An earlier version of the server was entirely LISTSERV-based and was not able to fetch new versions of things over the Internet. It had a static copy of the entire CP/M software archive online, which quickly went out-of-date. But for compatibility with SIMTEL20, it used exactly the same style of names.)
dmnhieu@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Duy-Minh NHIEU) (01/12/88)
Hi, is there anyone out there knows how to access SIMTEL20 (via email) ? I am here in Waterloo an we are not connected to Apranet, so I can't just FTP. Please help if you can.