From: SMTP%"FSupdate-Mgr@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU" 13-MAY-1994 11:57:05.25 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: ANNOUNCE: MadGoat FTP client and server X-Listname: FILESERV Announcement List Warnings-To: <> Errors-To: owner-fsupdate@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Sender: owner-fsupdate@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 11:13:05 CDT From: "Hunter Goatley, WKU" Reply-To: FSupdate-Mgr@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU To: FSUPDATE@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU Message-Id: <0097E37E.0435F56D.15@ALPHA.WKU.EDU> Subject: ANNOUNCE: MadGoat FTP client and server MadGoat Software announces the release of the first version of MadGoat FTP, an FTP client and server for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS AXP. MadGoat FTP works with MadGoat's NETLIB TCP/IP library, which means that it works with virtually every implementation of TCP/IP for VMS. MadGoat FTP started life as the CMU-Tek FTP client and server. Many thanks go to John Clement and Henry Miller, who made the CMU FTP much better than it used to be. The MadGoat version was modified to work with NETLIB and includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes. The MadGoat version was done by Darrell Burkhead and Hunter Goatley. It's called V2.0, since an earlier version supported only UCX. UCX sites, in particular, should find MadGoat FTP of interest. Some of the features include: o The client features a VMS CLI$ interface, with support for normal UNIX-style commands. For example, SET DEFAULT and CD both change the remote working directory. Unlike MultiNet's client, which offers a TOPS-20-style interface and UCX, which gives you either straight CLI$ or straight UNIX, provides a VMS-style interface with the case preservation, etc., of a UNIX-style interface. o The MadGoat FTP client and server support STRU O VMS. When both a server and a client support STRU VMS, VMS file attributes are retained when files are transferred. UCX does *not* support STRU VMS, making MadGoat FTP ideal for UCX sites connecting to anonymous FTP sites running MultiNet. o The MadGoat FTP server fully supports ANONYMOUS FTP accounts. Anonymous accounts can be restricted to certain directories, etc., as you expect from an anonymous FTP server. The MadGoat FTP server is running on ftp.wku.edu, if you'd like to see its output. o The MadGoat FTP server implements the REIN command, which lets you log out of an account and log in to another without disconnecting from the remote server. MadGoat FTP installs using VMSINSTAL. It is distributed with full documentation in the form of on-line help, PostScript, ASCII text, and Bookreader files. The BLISS sources are also distributed with the software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can get MadGoat FTP via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu; you'll need: [.MACRO32]UNZIP.EXE or UNZIP.ALPHA_EXE [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]MGFTP.ZIP The file [.MACRO32]BRIEF.DESCRIPTION contains a brief listing of all the packages available under [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get MadGoat FTP via e-mail, send the following commands in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU: SEND MGFTP !Comes as 35 180-block files SEND FILESERV_TOOLS !Needed if you don't have MFTU and UNZIP Including the command DIR ALL on a separate line will return a brief listing of all the packages available from FILESERV@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU. Hunter ------ Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University goathunter@ALPHA.WKU.EDU (or goathunter@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU)