wally@polari.UUCP (walter santarelli) (02/17/91)
I'm using a system that doesn't have FTP access to the net. The local SYSOP informs me that sites exist which will uuencode, divide-up, and e-mail the uuencoded pieces of files to me. I'm trying to find such a site that has the entire collection of Fred Fish disks. If such a site exists I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me in finding it. Pleas respond by e-mail and I'll post the results if there is interest. Thanks. Reply to: wally@polari.uucp Thanks.............. -wally -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (02/18/91)
In article <3368@polari.UUCP> wally@polari.UUCP (walter santarelli) writes: > I'm using a system that doesn't have FTP access to the net. The local > SYSOP informs me that sites exist which will uuencode, divide-up, and > e-mail the uuencoded pieces of files to me. I'm trying to find such a > site that has the entire collection of Fred Fish disks. If such a site > exists I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me in finding it. This needs saying occasionally. First, a couple of generic comments. USENet is not a very effective means for passing around what is now around 400 megabytes of Fish disks to all 2,000,000 Amiga owners. That comes out to roughly 800 Terabytes of data, which is going to drown any known telecommunications line. The best sources for Fish disks are 1) Fred Fish (also a limited resource), 2) Amiga dealers who subscribe to the Fish disks, and 3) computer clubs that subscribe to the Fish disks. Now that you have heard all reasons that you shouldn't do this, and the unabusive alternative ways to do this, what your sysop was describing was probably not a Fish disk FTP site, but the BITFTP service run by princeton.edu that accepts FTP requests by email, does them for you, and emails you the results. To make this work, you first need either a paper or machine readable FTP manual, so you'll know what the FTP command set is and how to use it. There is one online at most BSD Unix sites, and probably others. Then, send an email message, subject doesn't matter, to bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu containing just these two lines: HELP FTPLIST The first command gets you a short introduction to the command set of FTP that BITFTP recognizes, and the second returns you a list of the FTP sites that BITFTP knows by name. If what you want is at a site that BITFTP doesn't know by name, then you have to find out the site's node "number", really a string of numbers and periods, that is the low level description of how (part of) the net is connected together. Many sites that advertise FTP collections include this number in their postings. Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>