From: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
Subject: ftp?
Reply-To: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:39:19 EST

 

 SB>   Newsgroup: comp.os.os2.apps
 SB>  Message-ID: <1993Jan3.4880.9113@dosgate>
 SB>     Subject: ftp?

 SB> Hi Timothy,

 SB> I'm relatively new to this conference and from all the useful advice I
 SB> see you leaving for others I thought you'd be the best person to
 SB> talk to about a few questions I have.  If you can't help me I
 SB> appreciate it if you'd steer me in the right direction.

 SB> I access this conference via my local BBS here in Toronto Canada -
 SB> Canada Remote Systems (CRS).  I notice that you often advise people
 SB> to download various files and OS2FAQ from "anonymous ftp".

 SB> First of all I'm wondering what "anonymous ftp" means.

This is a method of picking up files from one of many large computer
databases on the Internet.

 SB> Do I have access to this via my BBS and FIDONET?  If so, how do I go

No, you don't have access to this on CRS, basically because CRS is not
_on_ the Internet. It is merely a gateway.

It is physically possible for CRs to provide this service, but they
don't. They're afraid of something like someone with little experience
phoning the University of Hawaii's ftp site and downloading the whole
thing, into CRS.

 SB> about accessing it?  If not is there a list of BBSs so that I could
 SB> get access?

To access it, you must get an account on a computer system which is
actually on Internet, for example, the University of Toronto. If you're
serious, phone them. It'll cost you, um, $75 per three months, I betcha.
There are other places where you can get access. Ask locally.

 SB> Also, I don't know how familiar you are with posting messages via
 SB> INTERNET etc but I haven't had any luck with it.  I'm supposed to
 SB> have access to INTERNET via my CRS BBS but the person I address
 SB> messages to never receives my forwards, nor I his.  Is there somewhere
 SB> I could get some advice or instructions on how to do this - format,
 SB> protocol etc? 

What you're really asking about here is the CRS system, and that's a
killer. I've tried four times to post private messages on both FIDO and
Internet, and they've all showed up public. I've followed the instructions
in the manual and they don't work, for starters, with a mail reader.
Now, I suppose, you're going to tell me they don't work _without_ a mail
reader, either.....

The place to get all your advice and instruction is, of course, CRS.
Either post these questions in Conference 9 (TECH CRSGEN), or phone the
sysop on the tech line, or attend a Thursday night seminar
(recommended!) or drop in and talk to the sysops on Saturday afternoon.

And that brings us to this. This discussion is slightly off topic here,
so let's move it to Conf 9 on CRS. See you there.

 SB> Thanks in advance for your help.  I hope you receive this message as
 SB> I'm sending it addressed "PRIVATE".

Yeah, "PRIVATE", yer*ss!!


Joe Kovacs                           FIDO:  1:229/15
Guelph ON                 Internet/Usenet:  joe.kovacs@canrem.com
                                     RIME:  CRS


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