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- From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith)
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- Subject: News from a newly non-computer-illiterate
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:30:00 GMT
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- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <words-l@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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- Everyone will be very relieved to learn that I have *finally*
- mastered CSHOW and am now looking at everyone through the
- gif-viewer, and am shocked, delighted, amused, and exhilirated.
- But, a question for you hackers out there: I accidentally ftpeed
- a .gif without the binary indication and now I can't get it again
- without erasing the one that's there. How to do it? Is there
- some kind of delete command? I keep getting a note about using
- the (REPLACE command, but I have tried every format I can think
- of and nothing works.
- -abh in front of the airplane is a real *trip*!
- And who is this *roman*?
- The system instructs me to use format:
- get foreignfile <local file> <(REPLACE
- but nothing seems to work. So if I want to ftp, for example,
- stupid.gif, a second time because the one I got wont work,
- what command do I issue? The first time, on my system, this
- is the format that works:
- get stupid.gif stupid.gif
- Somebody tell me, please, because there is someone I want to
- <eyeball>.....
- --ggs (having made a resolution to become in 1993 once again the
- loquacious poster that I once was....)
-