[307] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Anon FTP access to GCO stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed._Zayas@transarc.com)
Thu Sep 5 09:38:21 1991
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1991 09:08:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ed._Zayas@transarc.com
To: +dist+/afs/transarc.com/usr/afsps/cs/mlists/infoafs@transarc.com
Folks...
I don't believe I've properly advertised the fact that access to the
grand.central.org cell is also possible via anonymous FTP.
People who are not yet running AFS and wish to rummage through the
contents of GCO should ftp to grand.central.org (IP address
192.54.226.100) and log in as ``anonymous'', giving your
name/affiliation as a password. You'll find yourself sitting in the
equivalent of the /afs/grand.central.org AFS directory. From this base,
you can cd around, find what you need, and copy it over.
For example, let's say you want to grab the AFS-3 File Server/Cache
Manager programming spec PostScript file. You might type in something
like the following after setting up your FTP connection:
ftp> ls darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps
darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.dvi
226 Transfer complete
remote: darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm
97 bytes received in 0.45 seconds (0.21 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>
ftp> get darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for
darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps (771321 bytes).
226 Transfer complete
local: fscm-ispec.ps remote: darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps
784710 bytes received in 14 seconds (55 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>
There is a limit of three concurrent anonymous FTP connections to
grand.central.org, so if you can't get on right away, please keep trying
until you grab a slot. By the way, the X11R5 distribution has been
opened up to the public this morning as of 9:00am (from directory
/afs/grand.central.org/pub/X11R5), so we expect the anonymous FTP slots
to be a scarce resource for a few days.
Please let me know if you encounter any problems with this method of
access, or if you have comments and/or suggestions.
Ed.
