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janc
response 18 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 23 21:08 UTC 2004

I don't know anything about pine.

The best way to copy files off Grex for internet users is either 'ftp' or
'telnet'.  Either way, you'll need a client program on your computer.  I'm
afraid that I know nothing about Windows FTP clients.  Generally, you will
be running the program on your computer.  You will connect to "grex.org" or
"cyberspace.org" with you usual login and password.  You should then be able
to select files to copy back to your computer.

If you are using a Mac running OS X, you have the unix ftp and scp commands
on your system.  Find the "Terminal" application, and run it.  It'll give you
a terminal window where you can type standard Unix commands in a standard unix
shell.

Unix-style ftp is run like

   ftp grex.org

It'll ask you for your login and password, then give you a prompt.  You
can do "ls" to list files in your Grex home directory, or "cd" to change
to a different directory on Grex.  Doing "get filename" will copy a file
from Grex to your local system.

Unix-style scp is less interactive, but more secure.  You do

  scp janc@grex.org:filename localfilename

To copy a file named "filename" on Grex to a file named "localfilename" on
your sytem.  It'll prompt you for a paasword.  You should give your login
instead of "janc" of course.
cross
response 19 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 23 21:24 UTC 2004

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mcnally
response 20 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 23 23:27 UTC 2004

 re #17:  I haven't checked, but probably not.  The version of pine we
 are running here is quite ancient.
jor
response 21 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 23 23:47 UTC 2004

        (wow, no one uses MS-DOS telnet and ftp??)

keesan
response 22 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 24 03:27 UTC 2004

I use DOS telnet and ftp but usually I just dial in with DOS kermit and do
kermit file transfer on the same connection.  kermit -is mail would send a
binary file mail to my computer.  
jvmv
response 23 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 25 03:18 UTC 2004


           I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank the staff & 
           express my sincere gratitude to Grex for its excellent 
           performance & for its excellent service. I wish you success!

           Thank you very much. You do a wonderful job for us & I 
           thoroughly enjoyed remaining with you :-)

           
naftee
response 24 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 26 05:13 UTC 2004

I used to use SSHDOS back in the day.
gregb
response 25 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 26 05:35 UTC 2004

Re. 23: OK, who are you and what have you done with Vitor?
cross
response 26 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:29 UTC 2004

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cross
response 27 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:30 UTC 2004

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gelinas
response 28 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:38 UTC 2004

It's only the truth.
gelinas
response 29 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:38 UTC 2004

It's only the truth.
gelinas
response 30 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:40 UTC 2004

Hmm... ft told me "response not entered."  I wonder why that is?
janc
response 31 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:44 UTC 2004

Yeah, well, now it's time to brace ourselves for all the bugs...

Oops, Joe slipped in with one already.

There seems to be something about 'mesg' not being able find ttys.

The quota on /tmp is too low for some users to be able to read their
huge mailboxes.
richard
response 32 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:49 UTC 2004

I can't telnet in, it says 'user not authenticated' and rejects my 
password
charcat
response 33 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:55 UTC 2004

Yea! Grex is back up. (charcat does the snoopy happydance) Way to go
Janc Joe and all others!   
jep
response 34 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 03:58 UTC 2004

Dang, Backtalk is fast on this computer!  I like it.  Many thanks to 
Jan and Joe and all else who made it happen!
scott
response 35 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 07:19 UTC 2004

Aside from a little personal config glitch it seems fine to me. 
Congratulations, staff!
aruba
response 36 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 07:44 UTC 2004

Yea!  Yea!  Thank you so much Jan and Joe, for making this happen.
mary
response 37 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 12:40 UTC 2004

Wow, Backtalk is much, much faster now.  Very nice.

Thank, Jan, for giving so much time to Grex.
nharmon
response 38 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 13:34 UTC 2004

Thank you for your hard work! Some of us were beginning to become cynical
mnetters. :)
janc
response 39 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 14:05 UTC 2004

We worked hard to get backtalk to perform acceptably on old slow
machines. The effect of all that optimization now that we are on a fast
machine is kind of impressive.  One of the reasons I wanted a faster
machine, actually.
keesan
response 40 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 29 15:42 UTC 2004

Picospan is also nearly instant and I had no trouble dialing in or sending
mail with pine.
twenex
response 41 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 30 01:21 UTC 2004

Many, Many congratulations and thanks for getting NextGREX up, especially over
the Christmas period.

HOWEVER, I'm having trouble connecting to GREX from Linux. Using either
telnet, ssh, or PuTTY (with either telnet or ssh connections) fails miserably.
Using "telnet" "connects" me, but stops at the "Escape is..." line without
bringing up a prompt. Any other method produces diddly-squat. It's not the
firewall, as (a) using telnet, ssh, or PuTTY on a Windows VM under VMware
under Linux works fine, and (b) I switched the firewall off to make sure,
though it was pretty certain the firewall was not at fault since i had already
tested putty under Windows/VMWare.
twenex
response 42 of 219: Mark Unseen   Dec 30 01:28 UTC 2004

Oh, yeah: switching from OpenSSH to (gnu?) ssh makes no difference, either.
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