From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 2 15:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B99A14C26 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from max.alleswirdgelber (uzs106@ascend-tk-p253.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.253]) by f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA62338; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:39:56 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by max.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA00426; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:09:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:09:32 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@max.alleswirdgelber To: Don Hansford Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few questions In-Reply-To: <002901bf2578$35a6f2a0$2f2137cb@igor> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I haven't tried it yet, but a friend reckons it is far quicker to drop to a > DOS box to ftp, than to use Exploder. Well, Exsomething is a bad exemple for something that is flowing through the cables, free like free bear, but I must confess that most of my net experiences were with DOS and I even was lucky enough to bring some more learned people to make htget, imagine, the power of www with 37 kb. I think there is something called fetch on our machines, much much better, I presume. But those were the days of my dear and noble old Toshiba T 1000..... Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message