wpmadden@ncsuvx.enet.dec.com (WILLIAM PATRICK MADDEN) (01/30/91)
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Greetings and salutations,
I bought a 48 in December of last year. I have been well satisfied with it thus
far.
I am a student here at N.C. State University in EE. I have within the past
couple of days accessed
the HP BBS via Internet. The reaction time between here and there is gastly slow
so I have decided
to get the bulk of the info off of FTP sites and THE HP mail server.
This is all well and good, but I am stumped as to how to download to my 48.
I am working on a Ultrix-based system DECstation 2100 workstation in an
environment that was
modelled after MIT's Athena. Anyway, I mailed several syops, and anyone that I
thought would know
what to do. ... No luck. The head guy said that was the weirdest question he had
gotton all month and
had no answer. This was not good news. Nonetheless I first looked at
<comp.sys.handhelds> just an hour
ago and have aready seen some great info.
To the questions,
What cable do I need to connect the DEC station and my 48? I am not familiar
with what port
is what back there. And then when I get that worked out, what is the Unix
command to send from said port,
and like commands and man pages?
Are the Grapevine books that are advertized in EduCalc worth the money? I have
had a number
of problems with the manuals that come with the 48. They just do clarily things
as well as I like.
Lastly, could someone send me a complete list of FTP sites that archive 48
stuff.
As an aside, I need to download from the DEC, because I have not a PC and no
easy access to
one.
Well, that should do it for now. Thanks, Bill
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North Carolina State University - Raleigh, N.C.
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