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- Subject: Re: Longest FTP route ?????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.142922.1007@altair.selu.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 14:29:22 -0600
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- >Oh yeah?!
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- >Well here's my best!
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- >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!!!)
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- What? Pencils and paper?!! Why, you've got it made!
- Here's what I have to do:
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- FTP servers
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- More the file, and memorize the text (since we don't have paper and pencils)
- Really tricky, since I've got to pay attention for those unprintable charcters.
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- Convert this to bytes, and mentally apply the UUencode function.
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- Write the UUencoded bytes to disk using a _very_small_ magnet, calculating
- mentally where the tracks will begin and end (since I don't have "ed").
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- Put the disk in the drive and hope my memory was working well.
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- UUdecode and extract.
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- And besides that, I have to walk five miles in the snow (uphill both ways)
- to get from the campus to my house! And without shoes--clothes! Yeah,
- completely naked! That's it! And my school is in uh...Antarctica! Yeah,
- that's it! 3,000,000 degrees below zero! In the summer! That's the ticket!
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- All in fun,
- Scott
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