jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) (06/15/90)
Here's a list of a few sites I know about. No guarantee that there are all still in operation or anything. This list might not even be complete, but you should be able to find the vast majority of the stuff available with the sites listed here. The terminator site is by far the most diverse one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- picasso.ces.cwru.edu Atari dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu 129.22.16.2 Minix, TOS Atari ST, gcc from bammi jyu.fi 128.214.7.5 unix, atari, amiga, mac, etherprint, rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de129.69.1.12 RFCs, X11, atari, amiga, msdos, sol.cs.ruu.nl 131.211.80.5 atari, GNU, HP-UX, TeX, Perl, UMFT, terminator.cc.umich.edu 35.1.33.8 xscheme, msdos, atari, sysadmin tolsun.oulu.fi 128.214.5.6 amiga, atari, c64, msdos, mac, irc ummts.cc.umich.edu 35.1.1.43 atari st (cd PC7:) umn-cs.cs.umn.edu atari, apple II, GIF wuarchive.wustl.edu comp.binaries.atari.st, wuarchive.wustl.edu comp.sources.atari.st, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a sample ftp session that shows how it's done. % % ftp terminator.cc.umich.edu Connected to terminator.cc.umich.edu. 220 terminator.cc.umich.edu FTP server (Version 4.172 Wed Jun 28 16:09:38 EDT 1989) ready. Name (terminator.cc.umich.edu:jfbruno): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: jfbruno.acs.syr.edu <-- You should type your account name here. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd atari 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes). Index ab204.arc [ many more filenames deleted for brevity ] ftp> tenex <-- You should alway do this unless you're getting a text file. 200 Type set to L (byte size 8). ftp> get ab204.arc 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for ab204.arc (51712 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: ab204.arc remote: ab204.arc 51712 bytes received in 4.6 seconds (11 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. Sometimes you have to type "TYPE L 8" or "BINARY" instead of tenex above. Try tenex first. Now the file can be transferred from your mainframe account to your ST. Kermit is probably your best bet for this. If you don't have Kermit, I recommend you get Uniterm (from terminator). When you get the file to your ST, you will have to un-compress it. There are a few different compression methods used. The most popular of these are ZOO, ARC, and LZH. Most of the un-archivers you need can be found at terminator, in the /atari/archivers directory. ---jb