Re: OIG Telnet access capability removed

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:34:14 -0700

At 07:07 PM 3/25/98 -0600, you wrote:
>It would seem that OIG has now re-written everything and
>that the old telnet access is no longer available.
>
>Since all of my "expect" scripts used this access method to download
>data, I am now "out of business".  There will not be a "Molczan
>file" this week.  Maybe next month or next year or never.
>
>Ditto alldat, eccen, leo, geo, iridium, and recent.tles.
>
>Mike McCants

This is NOT a good thing.  I rely on Mike's ALLDAT.TLE file for most of
my prediction elsets...and definitely for IDing unknowns.  Alan's 
SELECT.TLE and IRIDIUM.TLE are also valuable but I NEED Alldat.tle.

I am not being critical Mike but your "service" was invaluable to me!

Ron Lee