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- From: 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
- Subject: Re: Longest FTP route ?????
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:26:41 GMT
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- >>
- >>FTP servers
- >>It's Better Manually 3090
- >>VAX/VMS
- >>Intentionally Bollocks Machines 386
- >>Amiga 1500
- >>
- >Oh yeah?!
- >
- >Well here's my best!
- >
- >FTP servers
- >UUencode the file
- >More the file, and write it down to paper (since the printer is not working...)
- >Type the file into the Amiga by hand, using "ed"
- >UUdecode the file
- >Extract the archive (and hope you didn't make a typo!!!)
- >
- >Yeah, I don't download much... ;-)
- >
- I think it's dan barrets turn :-)
-
- Anyway my attempts on getting Spice for the mac to run on
- amax.
-
- Finding it (Well a coincidence)
- D/L
- Now it's in hqx format 1.6 megs worth.
- Compressing it (down to 1.1 megs) splitting it and taking it home
- joining and uncompressing.Would not uncompress. back to
- uni and getting other uncompressors (this is a
- ftp<->UNIX<->IBM<->amiga<->Amax path everytime) Now those
- uncompressors would not uncompress (them selves let alon another
- program !!!) I get around to getting uncompressors. I find a
- program that uncompresses binhex files on unix. (mcvert)
- Use that get the binary home (same path including splitting
- and lha compressing) Still no sucsess. It seems that along
- the way the file type entry gets altered and the name of
- the file does not show up in the requester. I also atempted
- to get the file via modem 1.2 megs compressed to 1.19 megs with lha !!
- and the on 2400 baud overnight. Still no success. I have managed
- to work out all the problems though and I can now get everything
- working for small programs. Spice though is still living as a
- compressed file in my unix account because I have now finnished the
- subject I needed it for. Maybe during the holiday I'll bring it home !!
- Other problems was going to mac support and the telling me I was not
- allowed to D/L from the mac site stuff. only from america !!!
- Also trasfers from a mac to an unix machine and the problems that
- arose with that. Let alone IBMS going dumb infected by virus
- and macs refusing to show the file in requesters. To put it
- mildly I am sort of going bold :-)
- Beat that above and it's all true (except the bold part)
- George
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- >-Chris
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