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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Re: WANTED: //e shell (Davex).
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.163928.12021@cas.org>
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- Sender: usenet@cas.org
- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
- References: <1992Aug8.134145.16710@unlv.edu> <1992Aug9.041052.16720@wl.com> <1992Aug11.215511.10677@trl.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:34:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.215511.10677@trl.oz.au> a.guillaume@trl.oz.au writes:
- :In article <...>, schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
- :|In article <...> sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
- :|>archive.umich.edu has a copy of Davex.
- :|
- :|Has anyone been able to ftp to archive.umich.edu? I've been trying for a
- :|month now and end up staring at a blinking cursor -- nothing connects.
- :|(I can ftp to many other sites so it isn't a problem on my end...I think!)
- :
- :I have had the same problem. What's more, I have found (thanks to archie)
- :that wuarchive.wustl.edu and capella.eetech.mcgill.ca both have a mirror
- :archive of archive.umich.edu. Guess what ? The file davex.bsq is bl**dy
- :empty :-(. The description files are fine, and what makes me even more
-
- Hi all. I have been dealing with the apparently broken archive.umich.edu
- for about 10 days now. I would get on, do a dir or ls -C and see
- nothing. Today I decided for giggles to do an ls by itself - and there
- were all the files. I retrieved davex version 1.23 and then put it up
- on tybalt's upload directory. Now the best 8 bit shareware shell is
- available.
-
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