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- From: dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans)
- Subject: ftpmail (was Re: perl and groff binaries for SCO.)
- Organization: Edmonton, Alberta
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:26:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.062608.978@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca>
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- References: <9207202129.aa09972@gate.demon.co.uk>
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- ronald@gate.demon.co.uk (Ronald Khoo) writes:
- > ...
- >
- >>> You might be able to get the
- >>> ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com server to grab it for you if you can't FTP.
- >> That sounds ideal - do you have instructions for the server?
- >> (Is it the same as Simtel's?)
- >
- >I do not have instructions for the server, although I know that you can
- >send it "help" and I know that it is different from the BITNET servers
- >for simtel.
-
- I saved the following as soon as I saw it!
- I use ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com as my only ftp access.
- I can't grab megabyte files but other than that, it's great.
- (I suppose I could grab big files, but I don't want to rock the boat
- and lose my free net access!).
-
- ----- cut here -----
- From: bnelson@csulx.weber.edu (Bert Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: FTPing through E-mail
- Message-ID: <1992Jan15.050951.18295@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 15 Jan 92 05:09:51 GMT
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: Weber State University, Ogden Utah
-
-
- Many of those out in netland have requested that I mail them a copy
- of my recent game, because their over-zealous system adminstrators do
- not allow FTP at their site. And that's not too bad but when scores of people
- make the same request it becomes a little overwhelming.
-
- There is another way!
-
- Try using ftpmail. Send e-mail to 'ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com', with the
- word 'help' as the only word in the message body, and a null subject
- header. It will tell you how to use ftpmail. (The syntax for ftpmail
- is very similar to FTP itself, although ftpmail operates using e-mail,
- and thus is not interactive, unlike FTP.) This works for any hosts
- with e-mail access to the Internet, even from FidoNet!
-
-
- The contents of help for ftpmail from the above site is below.
-
- >>> this help file was last edited on 08-August-1991
- >>>
- >>> commands are:
-
- reply <MAILADDR> set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong
- connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]] defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous
- ascii files grabbed are printable ascii
- binary files grabbed are compressed or tar or both
- chdir PLACE "get" and "ls" commands are relative to PLACE
- (only one CHDIR per ftpmail session)
- compress compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding
- compact compress binaries using Huffman encoding
- uuencode binary files will be mailed in uuencode format
- btoa binary files will be mailed in btoa format
- ls (or dir) PLACE short (long) directory listing
- get FILE get a file and have it mailed to you
- quit terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
- (use if you have a .signature or
- are a VMSMAIL user)
-
- >>> notes:
-
- -> you must give a "connect" command, default host is
- gatekeeper.dec.com, default user is anonymous, default
- password is your mail address.
-
- -> binary files will not be compressed unless 'compress' or 'compact'
- command is given; use this if at all possible, it helps a lot.
-
- -> binary files will always be formatted into printable ASCII
- with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa").
-
- -> all retrieved files will be split into 60KB chunks and mailed.
-
- -> VMS/DOS/Mac versions of uudecode, atob, compress and compact
- are available, ask your LOCAL wizard about them if you can't
- locate them (but try gatekeeper.dec.com in /archive/pub/VMS
- if you're still trapped on a VMS system.)
-
- -> several mail unsplitters are hiding on gatekeeper.dec.com in
- /pub/mail/ua/misc/unsplit. includes one in c, one in perl,
- and one in VMS DCL.
-
- >>> examples:
-
- -> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get a root directory listing:
-
- connect
- ls
- quit
-
- -> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the README.ftp file:
-
- connect
- get README.ftp
- quit
-
- -> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the gnuemacs sources:
-
- connect
- binary
- chdir /pub/GNU
- get emacs-18.57.tar.Z
- quit
-
- -> connect to uunet.uu.net as anonymous and get a root directory list:
-
- connect uunet.uu.net
- dir
- quit
-
- -- Ftpmail Submission Transcript --
- <<< help
- >>> Help is on the way.
-
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Bert Nelson "On a clear disk you can seek forever"
- Weber State University Anonymous
- bnelson@csulx.weber.edu
- ----- cut here -----
- --
- Doug Evans | "You're just supposed to sit here?"
- dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca | - Worf in a mud bath.
-