[3015] in SIPB bug reports
two questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jul 8 15:23:35 1992
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 92 15:06:51 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: b41987a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Atsusi Fukada's message of Wed, 8 Jul 92 18:12:09 JST <9207080912.AA04803@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 92 18:12:09 JST
From: b41987a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Atsusi Fukada)
My name is Atsushi Fukada, and I'll be a visiting lecturer at MIT Japan
Program this summer. I have a couple of questions which I'm wondering
if you could answer.
1. I'll have a magnetico-optical disk (128MB IBM format, used on a PS/2)
with some important data on it. Is there a PS/2 with an
MO-drive on campus somewhere that I could use to get data off the disk?
Not that I know of. But then again, I'm not real familiar with the
extent of PS/2 use on campus.
2. I'll have an account set up on MITVMA, which I understand is a VMS system.
Are there commands like telnet, ftp, and talk available on it? If not,
are there other host computers I could get an account on from which I can
use these commands?
MITVMA will allow you to telnet and ftp, although you will find some
of the restrictions extremely limiting (such as the fact that you can
only use telnet in line-at-a-time mode, which makes applications like
emacs unuseable). If you are going to be a visiting lecturer for the
summer, you can probably get an Athena account, which would be much
easier to use than MITVMA, especially if you're familiar with UNIX.
To find out how to get an account with Athena, you should talk to
Athena's user accounts consultants, by sending mail to
"accounts@athena.mit.edu" or by calling x3-1325.
By the way, MITVMA is an IBM VM/CMS system, not a DEC VAX VMS system.
Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu
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