werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (11/07/88)
NOTE: BinHex4 and 5 were not available on RASCAL for a while, and I just uploaded them again; however, I expect that you should be able to find it on just about every dial-up BBS .... the UNIX-utilities are another story, of course ... I may follow-up in more detail to the article later (regarding incorrect instructions in SIMTEL-HowTo-file, etc...) ...in the meantime, here is what's available on RASCAL related to your communications needs, and an example session of how to get it. if you have trouble reaching RASCAL with FTP, blame the network disruptions caused by Wednesday's virus, and/or talk to your communications guru ... that's the only way he'll learn about such problems .... and gets motivated to do something about them. If you want to see something in comp.binaries.mac, tell the moderator (bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com seems, once again, not to reach Roger; I suspect that is result of the virus-scare and may be temporary; meanwhile, the most reliable path to reach Roger that I know of, is via ics.uci.edu as felix!dhw68k!bytebug@ics.uci.edu, and the former address felix!macintosh@ics.uci.edu if it still exists; otherwise try felix!dhw68k!macintosh@ics.uci.edu) If you have uploads that you want to make available to the net, you can mail them to me (best to macgifts@rascal.ics.utexas.edu) and I relay them to everyone else .... (I've had requests for the most recent version of ACTA-Reader, if anyone has it handy ..) below first a quick glimpse on what's available with FTP from RASCAL, followed by a sample FTP-session to RASCAL to snarf BinHex4, both binary and hexed ASCII-text version ... werner on rascal <120> pwd /usr2/ftp/misc/mac werner on rascal <121> l 0.about.binary-files NEW-in-8807/ 0.about.compressed-files NEW-in-8808/ 0.pointers.to.other.archives NEW-in-8809/ 0.simtel.ftp.example* NEW-in-8810/ 0.sumex.ftp.example* communications/ 00.README-for-this-directory dataframe-support/ BRANDNEW/ hacking/ DIR.NEW-in-8804 interesting-info/ DIR.NEW-in-8805 mac2/ DIR.NEW-in-8806 programming/ DIR.NEW-in-8807 protection-tools/ DIR.NEW-in-8808 sounds-archives.pointer DIR.NEW-in-8809 stuffit/ DIR.NEW-in-8810 unix-utilities/ INFO-MAC.at.SUMEX@ utilities/ MAC.at.SALLY@ virus-tools/ MACINTOSH.at.SIMTEL20@ zap+sum-support/ werner on rascal <122> l communications ArcMac.Arc.bin Kermit-KeyEdit-0pt86.intro Binhex-4pt0.bin Kermit-MacPlus-Config.bin Binhex-4pt0.hqx Kermit-MacPlus-Config.intro Binhex-5pt0.bin MCS-1pt1.intro Binhex-5pt0.hqx MCS-1pt1.sit_bin Jam.intro QVT28.intro Jam.sit_bin QVT28.sit_bin Kermit-0940-doc.txt SetClock_1pt8.intro Kermit-0940.bin SetClock_1pt8.sit_bin Kermit-0940.intro Telnet-2pt2_NCSA.sit_bin Kermit-KeyEdit-0pt86.bin xmodem-3.6.shar.tar.Z* werner on rascal <123> l unix-utilities Unix_to_LW.shar termcap.mac+lisa unxbin.shar comb.c unpit.c xbin.shar macbin.shar2 unsit.shar werner on rascal <125> ftp rascal.ics.utexas.edu Connected to rascal.ics.utexas.edu. 220 rascal FTP server (Version 4.1 Mon Oct 31 23:56:19 CST 1988) ready. Name (rascal.ics.utexas.edu:werner): anonymous Password (rascal.ics.utexas.edu:anonymous): 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd mac/communications 200 CWD command okay. ftp> dir Bin* 200 PORT command okay. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (128.83.144.1,3241) (0 bytes). -rw-r--r-- 1 19 users 7168 Nov 6 03:06 Binhex-4pt0.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 19 users 9521 Nov 6 03:06 Binhex-4pt0.hqx -rw-r--r-- 1 19 users 7936 Nov 6 03:09 Binhex-5pt0.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 19 users 10561 Nov 6 03:09 Binhex-5pt0.hqx 226 Transfer complete. 284 bytes received in 0.40 seconds (0.69 Kbytes/s) ftp> get Binhex-4pt0.hqx 200 PORT command okay. 150 Opening data connection for Binhex-4pt0.hqx (128.83.144.1,3243) (9521 bytes) . 226 Transfer complete. 9668 bytes received in 0.11 seconds (79 Kbytes/s) ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> get Binhex-4pt0.bin 200 PORT command okay. 150 Opening data connection for Binhex-4pt0.bin (128.83.144.1,3244) (7168 bytes) . 226 Transfer complete. 7168 bytes received in 0.02 seconds (3.5e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. -- --------------------> PREFERED-RETURN-ADDRESS-FOLLOWS <--------------------- (ARPA) werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet: 128.83.144.1) (INTERNET) werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu (UUCP) ..!utastro!werner or ..!uunet!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner