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The September 1992 BCS Calendar is now available for FTP access!

The BCS Calendar is on ftp.eff.org in the /pub/bcs directory in two forms:
as text (.txt) and as a BinHex'd Compact Pro archive (.cpt.hqx).

The text file will tend to be rather large, on the order of 100KB+, while
the BinHex'd Compact Pro archive will be somewhat smaller.


To get either of these files, you need to be able to use the FTP facility.
If your computer doesn't have this program, or something which does the
same thing, you won't be able to get the Calendar this way.

From UNIX, here's what you need to do:

% ftp ftp.eff.org
Connected to kragar.eff.org.
220 kragar FTP server (Version 6.9 Tue Oct 8 20:48:41 EDT 1991) ready.


You enter "anonymous" at the "Name" prompt:

Name (ftp.eff.org:yourusername): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.


Enter your e-mail address as the password, or the FTP system will act
cranky:

Password:
230-WELCOME TO THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION'S FTP SERVICE
230-
230-The growth of the EFF and this service depend, in part, on you.
230-For information about the EFF, download pub/EFF/EFF.about.
230-
230-If your ftp client chokes on this message, log in with a '-' as the
230-first character of your password to disable it.
230-
230-If you have problems with or questions about this service, send mail to
230-ftphelp@eff.org; we'll try to fix the problem or answer the question.
230-
230-Current local time is Sat Apr 18 11:26:24 1992.
230-
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Sat Feb 22 16:59:59 1992 - 56 days ago
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.


Go to the BCS's directory:

ftp> cd pub/bcs
[possible message deleted]
250 CWD command successful.
ftp>


Tell the system to show you a list of what is available:

ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 1756
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151           281 Mar  4 07:48 .message
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151         45183 Mar 20 00:17 Apr1992Calendar.cpt.hqx
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151        133270 Mar 20 05:15 Apr1992Calendar.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151         29440 Jan 11 16:24 Feb1992Calendar.cpt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151        123166 Jan  9 15:02 Feb1992Calendar.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151         31744 Jan  3 01:01 Jan1992Calendar.cpt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151        142592 Jan  3 01:05 Jan1992Calendar.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151         36648 Mar  4 07:56 Mar1992Calendar.cpt.hqx
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151        109579 Mar  4 07:28 Mar1992Calendar.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151         46219 Apr 18 11:17 May1992Calendar.cpt.hqx
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151        127100 Apr 17 21:40 May1992Calendar.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151           615 Mar 30 03:38 ReadMe.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 hshubs   151           593 Mar 28 00:04 ReadMe.txt~
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>


Get the current Calendar file:

ftp> get May1992Calendar.txt
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for May1992Calendar.txt (127100 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
127100 bytes received in 0.37 seconds (3.4e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp>


When you are done, terminate the connection:

ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
% 


If you're not using a UNIX-based machine, ask your system manager how to
do an anonymous ftp.



If you have suggestions on how to improve these instructions, please send
them to hshubs@eff.org, and thanks!
-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.