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- URL : http://www.olga.net/ftpmail.html
- Title: OLGA using ftpmail
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- The following is from Ryan Harding's old faq.
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- I don't have real-time internet connection or my system doesn't support ftp.
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- What can I do?
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- You can get access via ftpmail. This is basically an offline request version
- of the interactive "ftp" command detailed earlier. I know of the following
- ftpmail services:
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- ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu
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- ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
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- mailserver@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (only for Munich mirror & MUSIC archive)
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- [Note: these are internet addresses - if you use a non-internet email service
- like FIDOnet, compuserve or bitnet you may need to modify the address. Email
- me if you don't know how to do this. I'd like to add this to the guide so if
- anyone on these services would like to help (5 minutes of your time) email me]
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- Of these the ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu service looks most user-friendly.
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- There is another ftpmail server which I only recommend using if you have
- access to "uudecode", "uud" or "xxencode". It does offer HELP in HOWTOFTP and
- also for users of VMS. It's address is bitftp@pucc.bitnet.
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- The server at mailserver@informatik.tu-muenchen.de provides simple access to
- the Munich archives only. It also requires that the user is able to "uudecode"
- and "gunzip" the files which are returned in their email messages since it will
- not decompress files "on-the-fly". It must therefore use the file names listed
- at the Munich site (usually those from INDEX and FLAT.INDEX but with a ".gz"
- extension added.) For more info ask for help as below.
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- To get further instructions, you should email the appropriate server with the
- subject "HELP" and message body "help". For example, to get more info from
- all these services send the message between the === lines below. If you
- don't wish to use the mailserver@informatik.tu-muenchen.de service don't send
- the carbon-copy to that address.
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- To: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com,ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu
- Cc: mailserver@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Subject: HELP
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- help
- quit
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- A reply will automatically be despatched to you usually within minutes of the
- server receiving the email (not necessarily within minutes of you sending it!).
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- Use the instructions and PLEASE let me know of any pitfalls or ambiguities you
- encounter and tell me which servers you prefer. To access the Nevada archive,
- you should send a message of roughly the following form (this is in sunsite
- syntax):
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- open ftp.uwp.edu
- cd pub/music/guitar
- get FLAT.INDEX
- quit
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- This will obtain the index of the archive which should reach you in a day or so
- if not a minute or less. (If the file FLAT.INDEX can't be found, it may be
- currently saved under another name so try again with this or try the command
- "cd pub/music/guitar" then "ls" to find out what it's called). You can search
- FLAT.INDEX with an editor or word-processor or, in UNIX, the grep command. For
- example, in UNIX, to find any songs with "mystic" in them, I type:
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- grep mystic FLAT.INDEX
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- and the response is:
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- ./c/camel/mystic_queen
- ./m/bob_marley/natural_mystic.crd
- ./m/van_morrison/into_the_mystic.crd
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- At other sites without an index file you'll need to use the "ls" command to get
- directories. If you move to the /pub/music/guitar or whatever the root
- directory is using the "cd" command, you might find out the contents of all
- subdirectories using a command like "ls -rf" then save the reply to a file.
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- To get a file such as into_the_mystic.crd, don't include any ".Z" extension
- named in the index or listing unless you use BINARY mode and can "uncompress"
- and "uudecode" files, just send the following sort of message body:
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- open ftp.uwp.edu
- cd pub/music/guitar
- get ./m/van_morrison/into_the_mystic.crd
- quit
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- You'll be sent the file in a day or maybe a minute. To get more than one
- file, send more "get" commands on different lines of the message. The "mget"
- command is not available on most ftpmail servers.
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