[net.followup] SIMTEL20 access from USENET

pmh@burl.UUCP (pmh) (06/22/84)

<<RAID>> 

Well Folks, you asked for it and here it is. Due to the MAJOR demand
for folksie types wanting me to pass along info on SIMTEL access,
I've just decided to post a synopsis of the most recent stuff. OK OK
I now know that there is no PRACTICAL way to get to SIMTEL from a
usenet-only machine. Sorry about that to all you hopeful people out
there. Anyway, here it is (for your edification):

>    If you get any info on how to get in touch with SIMTEL20 could you
>please mail me
>
>               Tim Graves
>
>    mcvax
>      \
>       \
>      ukc!west44!graves      ..!west44!westf!graves
>      / \
>     /   \
> vax135  hou3b
--

>ecsvax in the Triangle has a lot of the programs, and I am going to raid
>SIMTEL 20 this summer on a trip to New Mexico.  There are some sources (RCPM)
>systems in the triangle with some of the stuff.  And if you can get a reasonably
>short path to there, I can email some of it (be gentle on our phone bills
though).
>
>--Ted--


>Pete,
>There is no way to access SIMTEL20 from usenet that
>I have found. I don't think it can be done. If it
>can, please let me know. 
>
>Mike Gleicher			:-)
>ATT Bell Laboratories		:-) I'll bet you were
>Murray Hill, NJ			:-) expecting a profound
>(home:(201)379-1712)		:-) quote here !
>(work: on occasion)		:-)


>Sorry about this, but you can only access SIMTEL20 through arpanet.
>Here at UCSD, we don't have arpanet, so we have to find those who do.
>(Berkeley is an example.) < sdcsvax!sdccs6!bert@Berkeley > Then we
>have SIMTEL20 make a .hex file out of the .COM files which are send
>through MAIL.  Other than this, I don't know how you're going to do
>it.
>
>						John
>				UUCP:  ...!noscvax!sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix255
>                    arpanet: sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix255@Berkeley
>>
>						UC San Diego
>
>
>I have also asked how to get to SIMTEL20, to no avail.  If you get any
>positive response, I would appreciate hearing about it.
>	Thanks ..D
>Usenet:	{dalcs dciem garfield musocs qucis sask titan trigraph ubc-vision
> 	 utzoo watmath allegra cornell decvax decwrl ihnp4 uw-beaver}
>	!utcsrgv!mason		Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG
>CSNET:	mason@Toronto
>ARPA:	mason%Toronto@CSNet-Relay
>
>
>The problem is you can't access Simtel 20. It is a DEC KL-10 on the
>ARPAnet, and the messages they send to INFO-MICRO@BRL go to net.micro.
>All of the voluminous stuff is mostly SIG/M and CPM/UG arechives and
>are available from the individual user groups for a nominal charge.
>
>If there was something specific you needed, I have an ARPA account
>and could retrieve it for you, however these archives are BIG and
>lots of usenet sites refuse to forward them anyway. So if it is
>a single program and you know a path that will allow >10K Files 
>through I will send them. 
>
Well, that's it. I hope this helps all who need the info. Thanks to
all who mailed me this unfortunate info. However, I did find it
useful (albeit disheartening).

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