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- From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: FTP Site for FIDONET Nodelist (latest)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.225356.1494@lub001.lamar.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 22:53:56 +1700
- References: <1992Aug29.102127.1491@lub001.lamar.edu> <BtrKyo.F74@cs.psu.edu>
- Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont
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- In article <BtrKyo.F74@cs.psu.edu>, fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug29.102127.1491@lub001.lamar.edu> lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
- > |Here is the scoop on the latest nodelist:
- > |
- > |FTP to:
- > |M2XENIX.PSG.COM
- > |Login anonymous using your complte e-mail address as password.
- > |cd/pub/fidonet/nodelist
- > |do a "TYPE I"
- >
- > You probably don't want to do this, if it's not archived, which your
- > instructions don't seem to imply that it is. If you're on a UNIX machine,
- > it should be OK, but if you're ftp'ing to anything else, doing the "TYPE I"
- > will make the transferred file garbage.
-
- I happen to be on a DOS B server connecting to a VAX/VMS machine. I have
- the complete nodelist per the above instructions and it is parseable and not
- garbage. However, that is a unix maine. perhaps I should leave it up to
- the person ftping to decide how they want to handle the transfer?
-
- > Bill
-
- 73's - N5UYH (Grady)
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