Subject: Prerecorded Garbo instructions The old, partly outdated information ==================================== ------------------- begin prerecorded message ---------------------- .................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5 Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa mailto:ts@uwasa.fi ; FIN-65101, Finland Spam foiling in effect. My email filter autoresponder will return a required email password to users not yet in the privileges database. There are some frequently asked questions about the programs available from garbo.uwasa.fi, by anonymous FTP and WWW from the /pc/ and other directories here at the University of Vaasa, Finland, site 193.166.120.5. Below you will find many of them prerecorded with answers. Please notice that the questions & answers are not in any logical order. The order has more or less been dictated by the arriving questions. And, there is overlapping. If you are well familiar with FTP and mail servers please note the following. Using automated FTP (batchftp) is preferred, since it minimizes the connection time (it is convenient for you, anyway). Furthermore, use mail servers *ONLY* if you don't have the FTP potential. Please also note that many recurring MS-DOS FTP site related and similar questions are answered in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/camfaq.zip Recurring Garbo related questions are alternatively, and often more currently available at http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html#faq ................................................................ FTP archives http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ University of Vaasa, Finland ................................................................ 1) What is this anonymous ftp? 2) Send file(s) to me by email. (Or how to use the mail server?) 3) Are there any other options for getting the files? 4) Do you announce all your new programs on the Usenet news? 5) How is anonymous ftp used? 6) When I try to unpack the package I received, it is corrupt. 7) Send me a list where on Simtel.Net I can find the same programs. 8) What is Garbo's guest user-id? 9) The .arc .arj .lzh .pak .rar .uc2 .zip .zoo extensions, what are they? 10) I have written some programs or papers myself. Are you interested? 11) I want a description of the programs to decide what to get. 12) Why don't you reply to my email messages? 13) I get an "unknown packing method" error message. 14) I need a program for such and such purpose. Any directions? 15) What are these peculiar files with a .Z extension? 16) What if my site does not know Garbo or connection refused? 17) Is there any way of automating getting the files? 18) Why doesn't your mail server respond to my correct request? 19) Are Garbo files mirrored? Which directories? How to connect? 20) The answer to my question is not in this list, what next? ...................................................................