packer@129.71.11.14 (Michael A Packer) (02/26/89)
Could someone please tell me where the best place to FTP to is
that contains a good selection of PC software?
I tried wsmr-simtel20.army.nil [26.0.0.74] but could not get connected.
michael a. packer
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USENET: {allegra,bellcore,ihpn4!cadre,decvax!idis,psuvax1}!pitt!wvucsa!packerw8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith B. Petersen ) (02/26/89)
In article <309@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> packer@129.71.11.14 (Michael A Packer) writes: >Could someone please tell me where the best place to FTP to is >that contains a good selection of PC software? > >I tried wsmr-simtel20.army.nil [26.0.0.74] but could not get connected. The "connection refused" problem on Simtel20 has been fixed. There are a lot of anonymous ftp jobs and you may sometimes get a message saying please try again later. Just keep trying like you would a busy phone number. One good way is to set up a hot key on your terminal program to send the command: open 26.0.0.74 terminated by a carriage return. Using the IP number instead of the host name avoids a slight delay caused by your host having to look up the number in the host table or domain server. Problems connecting to Simtel20 should be reported to ACTION@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL. If you don't tell us about problems we won't know about them. Remember that sign you've seen in some stores: "If you like our [product|service] tell others; if not tell US!" -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74] DDN: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz