840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) (02/20/90)
I have been trying to get fish disks from mrcnext.xxx.xxx (whatever) and have been unable to so far. Here is what I do ... FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE USER anonymous CD amiga/fish BINARY ---->> I tried with and without this line GET ff222 GET ffxxx QUIT Everything works fine except the GET commands return an error something like "file is not of simple type" or something like that. If anyone out there does this and could send me the commands to do it, I would be greatly appreciative.
chris@lvkeep.UUCP (Chris Olson) (02/20/90)
[Die!] >I have been trying to get fish disks from mrcnext.xxx.xxx (whatever) and >have been unable to so far. Here is what I do ... > >FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE >USER anonymous >CD amiga/fish >BINARY ---->> I tried with and without this line >GET ff222 >GET ffxxx >QUIT > >Everything works fine except the GET commands return an error something >like "file is not of simple type" or something like that. If anyone >out there does this and could send me the commands to do it, I would be >greatly appreciative. Use the binary line, it's a requirement. Also, you can't get a directory (which is how the fish disks are organized on mcrnext). You have to go for the right zoo file. ...so might look like this: . . . MGET ff222/* . . . Hope this helps (it will if the server/client supports multiple gets) chris -- /// uunet!ssbell!lvkeep!chris | [Contains my opinions only...] /// ssbell.imd.sterling.com!lvkeep!chris | "I like musicals. You know, \\\/// | movies with lots of sax and \XX/ "Amiga UUCP, of course..." | violins in them..." - unknown
harper@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (02/22/90)
The names ffxxx are directories. You need to cd ffxxx and then get the files that you see in the directory. -Mike
fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) (02/22/90)
In article <1990Feb20.121818.23551@aucs.uucp>, 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) writes: > I have been trying to get fish disks from mrcnext.xxx.xxx (whatever) and > have been unable to so far. Here is what I do ... > > FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE > USER anonymous > CD amiga/fish > BINARY ---->> I tried with and without this line > GET ff222 > GET ffxxx > QUIT > > Everything works fine except the GET commands return an error something > like "file is not of simple type" or something like that. If anyone > out there does this and could send me the commands to do it, I would be > greatly appreciative. Very, very close! The directory structure is: /amiga/fish/ff001 /amiga/fish/ff002 . . . /amiga/fish/ff299 /amiga/fish/ff300 Try this instead: FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE USER anonymous CD amiga/fish CD ffxxx <--- Where xxx is the number of the fish disk you want BINARY GET * QUIT I may not be exactly correct, but close. The 'GET' command may need to be a 'MGET'. I don't remember which. This SHOULD send you in UUENCODED format, all zoo files for Fred Fish disk xxx. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ Earle Ake /___ /___/ / / Science Applications International Corporation ____// / / /__ Dayton, Ohio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: fac2%dayton.saic.com@uunet.uu.net uucp: uunet!dayvb!fac2
scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) (02/22/90)
Regarding How to work BITFTP@PUCC; 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) writes: > I have been trying to get fish disks from mrcnext.xxx.xxx (whatever) and > have been unable to so far. Here is what I do ... > FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE > USER anonymous > CD amiga/fish > BINARY ---->> I tried with and without this line > GET ff222 > GET ffxxx > QUIT > Everything works fine except the GET commands return an error something > like "file is not of simple type" or something like that. If anyone > out there does this and could send me the commands to do it, I would be > greatly appreciative. The problem is that ffxxx is a directory. I usually stick a DIR command after every CD command, so I can tell what's there when I mess up the GET or whatever command. What you need to do is something like... FTP mcrnext.xxx.xxx.xx UUENCODE USER anonymous CD amiga/fish BINARY DIR CD ff222 DIR GET MemGauge.zoo memgauge.zoo QUIT NOTES: -If it is a UNIX system (and you are, too), you can ALWAYS use the BINARY command. I've got a GnuEmacs function that I use (in case that's useful)... ;; Setup a mail message to look like this... ;; ;; To: uw-beaver!BITFTP%pucc.princeton.edu ;; Bcc: scott ;; Subject: FTP archive-request to mrcnext.xxx.xxx.xx ;; --text follows this line-- ;; FTP mrcnext.xxx.xxx.xx ;; USER anonymous ;; BINARY ;; DIR ;; QUIT (defun ftp-request (node) "Send a mail message to the Anon-FTP mail server." (interactive "sNode name: \n") (if (boundp 'mail-setup-hook) (setq sv-hook mail-setup-hook) (setq sv-hook nil)) (setq mail-self-blind t) (setq mail-setup-hook '(lambda () (end-of-buffer) (insert (concat "FTP " node " USER anonymous BINARY DIR QUIT")) (beginning-of-buffer) (re-search-forward "^DIR") (beginning-of-line) )) (mail nil "uw-beaver!BITFTP%pucc.princeton.edu" (concat "FTP archive-request to " node)) (setq mail-self-blind nil) (setq mail-setup-hook sv-hook) ) -- Scott Blachowicz E-mail: scott@grlab.UUCP USPS: Graphicus ..or.. ...!hpubvwa!grlab!scott 150 Lake Str S, #206 VoicePh: 206/828-4691 Kirkland, WA 98033 FAX: 206/828-4236