home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.graphics:5615 comp.sys.amiga.misc:12684
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!DonD
- From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: FTP Guru needed
- Message-ID: <64072@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 13:03:22 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <billc.08t7@popsicle.UUCP>
- <KONPLM.92Aug12163728@euas20c02.eus20>
- <KONPLM.92Aug13082320@euas20c02.euas20>
- <1992Aug14.193344.11615@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Lines: 25
-
- >I don't have the time, much less the patients, to search the convoluted mass
- >of directories that passes for a logical tree structure. I tried but after
- >a half hour of looking in empty directories and following dead-ends, I
- >gave up. The only advantage to such a structure is that along the way,
- >you may run across some good stuff, which I did.
- >
- >Tom Setzer
- >setzer@ssd.comm.mot.com
- >
-
- I recently gained FTP access and I too am frustrated... There MUST be a way to
- use LS to look for a file within a tree structure, there also MUST be a way
- to read a .README file without FTPing it and then DOWNLOADing it and then MOREi
- ng
- it and then DELETEing it and going back for the actual file if you decide the
- .README was interesting. AND there MUST be a way to get FTPed sites to not be
- so picky about upper/lower case when CDing and GETing.. AND....
-
- Any Ideas where I find information on making the most of FTP?
-
- (and if anyone says "Use ARCHIE to track down an FTP tutorial on the net" I'll
- scream!)
-
- Don DeCosta |The nice thing about sanity is| VM/Nomad2
- DonD@cup.portal.com |you can lose it more than once| Amiga/Imagine
-