merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) (02/02/88)
I have been having trouble doing FTP to Arpanet hosts using
the TOPS-20 operating system. They support filenames of the sort
Device:<dir1.dir2...>file.type.version
I want to find out what legal choices exist for "device" and
the directory heirarchy. This is easy to do when FTP-ing to a
Unix host, but I don't know how to do it when the host is running
TOPS-20.
Can anyone enlighten me? This is particularly important,
because I know there are many good things on the archives at
SIMTEL-20, but I don't know how to get a list of what's available.
(send *advance* :insert 'thanks)
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David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900
UUCP: *!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: ai01@hios-pent.arpahedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (02/03/88)
It is possible to look around in a TOPS-20 directory hierachy just as you would on Unix. However some of the tools to do so are not going to be available via FTP, and I think some sites may place even more restrictions on anonymous FTP users. I don't know any way to find all the legal structures, but if you know a structure, you can find the directories by doing dir <root-directory> You can find subdirectories under foo by doing dir <foo>*.directory
thad@cup.portal.com (02/04/88)
The command "INFORMATION STRUCTURES *" (abbreviated I STR *) will
produce a list of the available structures on a given TOPS-20 system.
To see all available (to you!) directories on a given structure:
DIR structure:<*>,
NO FILE
note the comma (putting you into sub-command mode), and note you will
need to enter two RETURNs after the NO FILE.