THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET ("Throop,Henry B") (11/01/90)
[unknown talking about internet vs. bitnet]
Contrary to popular belief, ftp is available from bitnet, in a way. There
is a server at bitftp@pucc.bitnet (or bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu) which
will process your requests. Mail a message there with the proper commands
in it and it will ftp and then send the results back to you in a mail file.
The files you actually get are sent as bitnet netdata files, which from what
I played around with will not work to non bitnet addresses (such as proline
people). Anyways, a sample file would be:
ftp tybalt.caltech.edu
user anonymous password {which can be anything, but normally your address}
cd pub
ls -l
cd apple2/uploads
ls -l
get cosmocade.a.bsq
get cosmocade.b.bsq
This will list the directories that you change into, and then get the files.
Obviously, you need to know what the directories are before you get in them,
which means that each time you need to send a new message. This isn't
terribly exciting, but that's how it is. Internet is much easier, but the
capability is still there for bitnet.
(I've been having problems getting some binary files, but I think this is
related just to my local setup here.)
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Henry Throop
THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET
throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu