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- From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: what is CCOSUN
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 07:12:39 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- utukuri@ecf.toronto.edu (UTUKURI AVANINDRA) writes:
-
- >One question, what is CCOSUN? Is there a user group on this net where I can
- >download cbm software? Then, how would I transfer the files into a c64
- >disk? Cause I have an IBM terminal at school. Well, any help is appreciated.
-
- CCOSUN, aside from being a place where me and a lot of other people get E-mail
- and do computer work :) is an anonymous ftp site which archives a number of
- different sorts of software - and, in the /pub/rknop directory tree, you will
- find files relevant to the C64/C128.
-
- What is an "anonymous ftp site" you ask? If you have used ftp at all to
- transfer files between machines, then you know all you need to know.
- Anonymous ftp is a way whereby one can log into machines (with limited access
- priveleges) where one has no account.
-
- A brief summary: from your Unix (or whatever) account, type:
-
- % ftp ccosun.caltech.edu
-
- Then, at the username: prompt, type "anonymous". At the password prompt, type
- your E-mail address. Then you will be logged in. You can use "cd" to change
- directories (try "cd /pub/rknop") and "dir" to get a list of the files in the
- current directory. Before getting any files, type "binary" to tranfer the
- files as binary files (otherwise they may be transferred as ascii or text
- files, which will do bad things to them), and type "get <filename>" to copy a
- file to your Unix (etc.) machine. Thereafter you can download them to your
- C128/C64 using a terminal program and a modem, or you can download them to an
- IBM/Amiga/Mac/Sun/Whatever, write them to a MS-DOS disk, and read them with
- CrossDos or the Little Red Reader or the Big Blue Reader into your C64 or
- C128.
-
- Good luck, and enjoy.
-
- Incidentally, please avoid using the ccosun anonymous ftp site between the
- hours of 8 AM and 6 PM Pacific time.
-
- -Rob Knop
- rknop@cco.caltech.edu
-