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- From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
- Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 04:36:22 GMT
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- Roy Smith writes
- + 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
-
- + 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.
-
- Not really. If I'm retrieving a bunch of files from sumex or umich,
- I use a script file to do the transfers in the middle of the night.
- This is accomplished by constructing the script's data from the
- info-mac and umich postings to c.s.m.digest. If there's any great
- demand, I will post the script and it's support file.
-
- James
-