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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:34:00 +0100
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- Sender: NeXT Computer List <NEXT-L@BROWNVM.BITNET>
- From: RFSCHTKT@BANRUC60.BITNET
- Subject: ftp access to sonata.cc.purdue.edu for those not on the Internet
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- Hello fellow deprived,
-
- As you will undoubtedly know from various sources, there exists a
- wondrous feature on the Internet called ftp. It's what you can do on
- your LAN, only here it gives you access to the world. Unfortunately,
- many (most non-US?) sites don't provide interactive access to these
- archives. You must resort to servers that will act on e-mail requests
- from yourself, either a local server (sonata.cc.purdue.edu has one
- locally, well, on nova.cc.purdue.edu which nfs-mounts the ftp
- directory from sonata), or a ``gateway'' server (my ad-hoc
- nomenclature) that will access any site on the Internet for you. The
- latter is for example BITFTP@PUCC.Princeton.edu (send it a message
- with no subject and a single line ``HELP\n''), and I want to give you
- some tools to ease access to the former.
-
- This is what you will have if you install my tools (oh well, they're
- just tiny hacks really): a copy of the full sonata ftp directory in
- your File Viewer to browse through, with occasionally non-zero-length
- files: the ones you already fetched from sonata or copied from
- someone else's disk. When you want a particular file that's not
- already there,
- 1. select that file in the File Viewer,
- 2. do Services>Terminal>Fetch from sonata.cc.purdue.edu.
- It will be forthcoming soon, as NeXT Mail, and uncompressed and
- un-tar'ed. You will have to
- 3. open the folder in this message, and
- 6. drag its contents to the proper location in the file tree. For
- that, you will have to first
- 4. inspect the contents to determine where it belongs (that's an
- imperfection to the scheme) and
- 5. remove the original (most probably empty) file. Yes, you still
- have to do all that work. Sigh!
-
- To avoid inconveniencing the others, I propose that interested
- readers send a simple request with the subject ``sonata tools
- please'' to my address. I will return NeXT Mail.
-
- Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@banruc60.bitnet
- Real, i.e., uuencoded, NeXT Mail preferred.
- I can't reach sites with ! or % in their address.
-
- PS: If you have a better solution, please hurry to present it to me
- before I send out mine.
-