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- From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
- Message-ID: <1if927INNqe3@calvin.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:40:07 GMT
- References: <BRECHER.92Dec31192928@husc8.harvard.edu> <1993Jan2.030645.17703@msc.cornell.edu> <1993Jan2.041942.9805@netcom.com>
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- bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- > (2) The directory names are too long. [...] On umich, if I want to get
- > there, I type "cd system.extensions/cdev". This can get very annoying
- > when I'm grabbing a lot of files, especially since I keep misspelling
- > "extentions" instead.
-
- Who types filenames? I do all my Mac-related ftp grazing using Jim
- Matthews's wonderful Fetch FTP client. Send email to fetch@dartmouth.edu,
- and/or look for it at your favorite ftp archive. I'm currently running
- version 2.1; not sure if that's the latest or not. It's not only got a
- snazzy point-and-shoot FTP browser inferface, but it knows how to handle
- things like multi-part binhexed stuffit archives automatically, knows about
- new-fangled FTP servers (the ones with the multi-line responses), System-7
- savvy, 32-bit clean, free, robust, politically correct, and good for you
- too.
-
- Of course, this assumes you're Mac is directly on the Internet. If
- you're ftping stuff to your unix box then downloading it to you Mac with
- kermit/xmodem/whatever, you're out of luck.
- --
- Roy Smith <roy@nyu.edu>
- Hippocrates Project, Department of Microbiology, Coles 202
- NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
- "This never happened to Bart Simpson."
-