From: park@netcom.com (Bill Park)
Subject: Re: NIH is rejecting anonymous logins (how to get NIHCL)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c++
Summary: ftp alw.nih.gov [128.231.128.7] from pub/NIHCL
Keywords: NIH, NIHCL, ftp
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:02:35 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.181558.26816@netcom.com> distributed to na (North
America), I noted that the anonymous ftp host at NIH mentioned in the
FAQ (Q96) in fact rejected anonymous users.

Thanks to ...

  Joachim Schrod                  Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
  Computer Science Department
  Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

who said ...

> Try alw.nih.gov [128.231.128.7]. The directory is also wrong, it's in
> pub/NIHCL, not in pub.
> 
> A copy is also available on ftp.th-darmstadt.de, directory
> pub/programming/languages/C++/class-libraries/NIHCL (mainly for
> European folks, this is in Germany).

So, here is an example of the correct procedure for getting a copy of
the NIH C++ class library that provides the functionality of the
Smalltalk classes ...

=================================  EXAMPLE ==============================
netcom2/u10/park/News% ftp alw.nih.gov
Connected to alw.nih.gov.
220 alw.nih.gov FTP server (Version 4.106 Sat Dec 10 07:14:55 PST 1988) ready.
Name (alw.nih.gov:park): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: park@netcom.com   <=====  * * *  ACTUALLY, NOT ECHOED  * * *
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub/NIHCL
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (192.100.81.108,4955) (0 bytes).
Total: 7252 kbytes
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       wheel       712241 Mar  2  1992 MartinNihcl3-100.tar.Z
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       wheel       940894 May 21 18:29 MartinNihcl3-101.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1205      wheel         1526 Mar  8  1991 Notes-SunCC
-r--r--r--  1 1207      wheel         3006 Jul 27 15:22 README
-rw-r--r--  1 1201      wheel        49683 Mar 19  1992 nihcl-3.0-dec1.0-diffs.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1201      wheel        16384 Feb  7  1992 nihcl-3.0-sun2.1-diffs.tar
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       wheel       699595 Mar 20  1992 nihcl-3.0-sun2.1.tar.Z
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       wheel       664692 Oct  8  1991 nihcl-3.0.tar.Z
-r--r--r--  1 1201      wheel       886543 May 18  1991 nihcl-info-3.10.tar.Z
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       wheel       664692 Oct  8  1991 nihcl.tar.Z
-rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       wheel       841482 Mar  2  1992 noren.ps
-r--r--r--  1 1207      wheel        29277 Sep  9 10:39 prerel-3.1.3.CHANGES
-rw-r--r--  1 1207      wheel       347193 Sep 12 16:10 prerel-3.1.3.DIFF
-r--r--r--  1 1207      wheel        35776 Sep 12 15:37 prerel-3.1.3.INSTALL
-rw-r--r--  1 1207      wheel         1014 Sep 12 16:38 prerel-3.1.3.README
-r--r--r--  1 1207      wheel      1525353 Sep 12 15:54 prerel-3.1.3.tar.Z
226 Transfer complete.
1224 bytes received in 0.33 seconds (3.6 Kbytes/s)
=============================  END EXAMPLE  ==========================

Thanks again to the all-powerful NetMind!

Bill Park
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