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Article #43426Re: Alternatives to SIMTEL20
From: Sean C. Cox
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 1990 00:21
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 1990 00:21
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kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) writes:
>What's a good alternative anonymous FTP site for ibm-pc stuff besides
>SIMTEL20? I find its very hard to get a connection there. Either the
>connection times out or there are too many anonymous users. When I do
>manage to get a connection its very slow and often seems to die
>halfway through a transfer.
>I was under the impression that there were some sites that kept copies of
>the SIMTEL20 archives but I can't seem to find them. Any suggestions?
I often use wuarchive.wustl.edu for ftping since it is usually much less
busy, and has a UNIX file structure as opposed to the CP/M (I believe) of
simtel20.
-Sean Cox
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!skeeve From: skeeve@pawl.rpi.edu (Sean C. Cox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Alternatives to SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <Y6+#&1=@rpi.edu> Date: 4 Mar 90 00:21:31 GMT References: <1148@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 23