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Finding the FTP Archives at NOAO/Tucson (1Mar94)
(from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 37, 1 March 1994)

The past two issues of this Newsletter have attempted to make our
anonymous FTP archives more visible to the community.  As many of you
have probably noted these archives are spread out over various
machines; the confusion is increasing since the number of anonymous FTP
archives at NOAO/Tucson seems to be increasing.  An attempt has been
made to consolidate these archives for the outside user.  We are still
experimenting with the best way to present these archives so additional
changes may be made over the coming months but we will keep you informed.

We now have one general FTP address for the anonymous FTP archives at
NOAO/Tucson - ftp.noao.edu.  The archives themselves have really not
moved, but through the magic of automounting all the archives do
indeed appear to be on the same node.  This also has the advantage that
if it becomes necessary to move an archive it will be transparent to
our users since they can continue to access the archive at ftp.noao.edu,
regardless of where it is.

For large file transfers, it may be slightly more efficient to still
log onto the actual node, i.e., if you are transferring an IRAF
distribution you may still want to ftp to iraf.noao.edu.  Or if the
ftp.noao.edu node goes down for some reason the old addresses will
still work (see the accompanying article in this section of the
Newsletter for a consolidated listing of what's in our FTP archives and
the alternate addresses).

To log into the NOAO/Tucson anonymous FTP archive type:

    ftp ftp.noao.edu (or 140.252.1.24)
    log in as anonymous
    user your e-mail address as the password
    get README
    cd < directory_of_choice> 
    binary (for transferring binary files including files that end in .Z)
    quit to exit

If you experience any problems with accessing the archives please send
mail to grandi@noao.edu or jbarnes@noao.edu.

Steve Grandi, Jeannette Barnes

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