barns@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Bill Barns) (10/19/88)
Joel: You are right, they are wrong, and TOPS-20 FTP does the right thing (at least about this, and assuming nobody broke it while I wasn't looking). I will leave it to you to try to think of a TOPS-20 host that might allow you to use anonymous FTP to get files whose names you more or less know already....... Bill Barns / MITRE-Washington / barns@gateway.mitre.org
map@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael A. Patton) (10/25/88)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 88 13:55:17 EDT From: barns@gateway.mitre.org (Bill Barns) Joel: You are right, they are wrong, and TOPS-20 FTP does the right thing (at least about this, and assuming nobody broke it while I wasn't looking). I will leave it to you to try to think of a TOPS-20 host that might allow you to use anonymous FTP to get files whose names you more or less know already....... Bill Barns / MITRE-Washington / barns@gateway.mitre.org If that's in fact the case XX.LCS.MIT.Edu [18.26.0.36] might be a good machine to try. Most of the RFC's should be available to anonymous FTP as RFC:RFCnnn.TXT (where nnn is the 3 or 4 digit number), this should be a useful test (and doesn't require you to go far beyond SLUDGE for testing.