From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux]: Re: [comp.os.linux]: Cannot access mailpak.tar.Z Date: 14 Jul 1992 10:46:04 GMT
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> From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
> Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux]: Cannot access mailpak.tar.Z
> Summary: /pub/Linux/Incoming is on banjo.concert.net, not tsx-11!
> Message-ID: <1992Jul13.233824.12557@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 23:38:24 GMT
> References: <9207122219.AA13937@optical.bms.com> <k6VTNB2w165w@ssg.com> <1441
> Organization: Illinois State University
> Keywords: mail uucp mailpak lost-sheep
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> In article <14418@umd5.umd.edu> dhs@moeng2.minc.umd.edu (David H. Silber) wri
> >
> >OK, I was caught by that one as well, so on finding Rick's post, I said
> >"haHA!!", ftp'ed out to tsx-11.mit.edu and looked for '/Incoming'.
> >
> >It's not there.
> > [stuff removed]
> >Rick, do you perhaps mean '/Incoming' on some other ftp site? There
> >just ain't no such directory on tsx-11.mit.edu.
>
> True. He probably meant pub/Linux/Incoming on banjo.concert.net
> ^ ^ note the caps!
>
> Furthermore, I don't recall if the original post was for an x
> applications. If so, it would be under pub/Linux/X11/Incoming on
> banjo. As I understand it the sys admins at banjo have not tested
> stuff in Incoming - so testing is up to you... :):)
>
The original poster said "TSX-11" but he was looking for "mailpak.tar.Z"
which isn't an X file. As you say, he should have looked on banjo. I
addressed the directory the original poster asked about.
Rick
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