Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!tiktok!meissner
From: meissner@tiktok.dg.com (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: UUCP --> FTP
Message-ID: <1330@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 15:36:40 GMT
References: <89258.213225CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> <8723@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>
Sender: usenet@xyzzy.UUCP
Reply-To: meissner@tiktok.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
Lines: 25

In article <8723@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> mhw@wittsend.UUCP (Michael H. Warfield (Mike)) writes:
| In article <89258.213225CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
| >I need to download files from a machine running strictly UUCP to a machine
| >running only FTP.  I've heard that this is impossible.
| 
| 	No.  This is possible but only if you have access to another machine
| somewhere in the middle that can play both games.  Out here in UUCP land our
| problem is generally the reverse, where we want to get something from an FTP
| only site.  That requires something fancy like a LISTSERV system.
| 
| 	If you mean downloading directly with no help in-between from
| another system, you are out of luck.  If it's not something gigantic and
| your uucp/internet neighbors don't object (CHECK!!) have the uucp site
| encode it and mail it to you.  If it's an autonomous archive site, wwwweeeellll
| so much for that idea.

If you are a customer of uunet, they offer a service where they will
FTP files upon request and uucp them to you.  I've used it several
times recently with good results.  If the files you want to get are
freely redistributable, it's also possible that it already exists on
uunet's and/or Ohio State's archives.
--
Michael Meissner, Data General.
Uucp:		...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner		If compiles were much
Internet:	meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM			faster, when would we
Old Internet:	meissner%dg-rtp.DG.COM@relay.cs.net	have time for netnews?