[comp.sys.handhelds] Question on access to HP BBS via FTP

wag@georwell.EBay.Sun.COM (Rick Wagoner) (01/04/91)

After reading Derek S. Nickel's post on his Internals
document I immediatly ftp's to the HPBBS. However 
I did not find it.  There is no user.programs 
directory (actually there are no subdirectories in /pub)
and consequently no note 184.

Undaunted I then tried telnet.  I successfully
logged in as a new user (I'm an ftp vet but a telnet
neophyte) and again failed to find note 184. I found *lots*
of other posts, but not the one I was looking for.

Okay, I give...What did I miss?  Secret handshake?
Gotta be a Free Mason? What?

Help!

Thanks,

Rick Wagoner

rwagoner@sun.com

akcs.dnickel@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Derek S. Nickel) (01/05/91)

Rick,

After logging into the HPBBS (via "akcs") you should:

(General) Main: join user.programs
   .
   .
   .
(User.programs) Main: read 184
   .
   .
   .

You would then "attach" and "download"

These step are not the easiest thing for a new user to handle, but are
really quite simple.  I belive several people have already reposted my
stuff to c.s.h. as well as other ftp sites.

        Derek S. Nickel