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From: ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Richard Ferris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP with SIMTEL
Summary: Simtel down for a bit
Message-ID: <14915@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 30 Sep 89 20:17:01 GMT
References: <1989Sep30.115816.22373@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Richard Ferris)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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In article <1989Sep30.115816.22373@agate.berkeley.edu> danny@garnet.berkeley.edu (Danny Lee) writes:
>
> Hi there ! I've got a slight problem FTPing from the SIMTEL archives. Apparently, I'm doing something stupid. I login as an anonymous user and give
>guest as a password. So far, so good. I then try to get into the MSDOS
>directory by typing "cd pd1:" (XXX = sudir name). I then get a
>message stating that there is no such directory! I did this a few days ago
>and had no problems. Has something at SIMTEL changed or am I only allowed to
>FTP x number of times a week/month/year?
>
The people at Simtel sent me some mail which said that PD1 was down for
a while and they were trying to recreate it ASAP. Don't know the
timetable.
RF
Richard T. Ferris
ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania