Date   : Tue, 28 Apr 1981203:09:00-MDT
From   : Frank J. Wancho <FJW@MIT-MC>
Subject: New Files in MC:CPM;

There are several new files in the CPM directory on MC:, namely:

MC:CPM;CPMNET MAR81
MC:CPM;CPMNET APR81
MC:CPM;CPMNET MAY81

There are others.  For those of you on any of the ITS machines, just
type:

:PRINT MCDIR:CPM;CDATE DOWN

to get a list of files in reverse creation date order.

For those of you elsewhere on the net, use FTP and connect to MC.
Then type:

ASCII
GET DIR:CPM;CDATE DOWN

Remember to type TENEX to return to binary transfers.

You should also be able to use wildcarding:

From an ITS machine:

:FIND MC:CPM;xxxxxx yyyyy

where xxxxxx and/or yyyyyy may be any combination of characters with
the asterisk (*) as the wildcard.

Using FTP:

ASCII
GET DIR:CPM;FIRST xxxxxx

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Thanks to Ed Barton (EB@AI), those of us on some of the ITS machines
can now reliably up and down load both ASCII and COM files using the
MODEM program on our micros and LMODEM on the ITS end.  LMODEM
implements the MODEM2 protocol (see MC:CPM;MODEM2 PROTO for a writeup
of the protocol).  Hopefully, one or more people might be willing to
volunteer to implement the same protocol on their home machine in a
transportable version (C, MIDAS, and FAIL are the most likely
candidates).  Why?  Well, in less than a year my office will have a
host of our own on the net and there should be plenty of room to hold
all of the CPMUG and SIG/M libraries and then some online and
available for MODEMing during the offhours.  To do that, we will need
a non-ITS program similar to LMODEM...initially.  Volunteer hackers
are urged to get a copy of the writeup and keep in touch with me.

--Frank