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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!news
From: vanes002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (The Resource Guide Editor)
Subject: ()======== Getting DOOM-related files via E-mail ========()
Message-ID: <CvJFyz.99x@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Nntp-Posting-Host: maroon2.tc.umn.edu
Reply-To: vanes002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (John Van Essen)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 05:10:24 GMT
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()======== Getting DOOM-related files via E-mail ========()
If you do not have FTP access, but can receive and process uuencoded
multi-part e-mail messages (with a uudecode program), you are in luck!
There is an infant2 mirror located in Sweden. The distances involved
result in gawd-awful FTP transfer rates for users in the U.S. (and the
rest of the Western Hemisphere, for that matter). BUT!
There is an ftpmailer running on that machine!
This means that the FTP transfer rate for ftpmail fetches is very fast,
since it talks to itself (the packets don't even leave the machine).
E-mail requests are delivered promptly and processed quickly. Results
are mailed with Precedence: bulk; prime-time delivery takes a while.
This is a very good option for those who cannot do FTP, but have e-mail.
Common sense and courtesy should be exercised when submitting requests:
* Do not submit jobs during Sweden's prime time.
* Do not submit jobs during your country's prime time (9am to 4pm?).
* Do not submit jobs for big files (1M or more) except on weekends.
In the U.S. (for example) jobs should be submitted between 1700-0200 EDT
(1600-2300 PDT) if possible. Tiny jobs would be OK at other times.
This ftpmailer does FTP transfers in binary mode by default. This does
not hurt text files, so you can leave the mode set to binary. It is
also intelligent enough to recognize a binary file (such as a zip file)
and will automatically uuencode it (by default) when mailing it to you.
This makes things *very* easy! You just "get" the file, and let the
mailer decide what to do!
To submit jobs for the ftpmailer, send a message with ftpmailer commands
to "ftpmail@ftp.luth.se". The commands for this ftpmailer differ from
those of the original ftpmailer at decwrl, so get the help for it.
Here are some examples:
(1) Get the help file and a directory listing of /pub/doom:
help
open
cd /pub/msdos/games/doom
dir
quit
(2) Send the FILELIST and NEWFILES files to your buddy:
reply buddy@other.mail.address
open
cd /pub/msdos/games/doom
get FILELIST
get NEWFILES
quit
(3) Get the DOOM WAD specs and the zipped FAQ:
open
cd /pub/msdos/games/doom
cd text
get dmspec13.txt
get doom57.zip
quit
(4) Get the DOOM II pix (will be split into many separate messages):
open
cd /pub/msdos/games/doom
cd graphics
get doom2pcx.txt
get doom2pcx.zip
quit
Read the ftpmailer's 'help' for further information. If you use the
above examples, remove the leading white space on the lines.
[Editor's note: I mailed example (3) to ftpmail on Fri Sep 02 19:10 CDT
and got the entire result back in six (yes, SIX) minutes! It was 02:10
local time and there were only 5 other jobs in the queue. Terrific!!!]