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- From: brode@icpsr.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: BART is back at atari.archive.umich.edu
- Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:15:58 GMT
- Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
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- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1gleduINNh02@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: tdis.icpsr.umich.edu
- Summary: Let the games begin!
- Keywords: archive BART mail server
-
- BART, the official Atari Archive mail server, is back. Appended below is
- the help file. As always, if you have any BART comments, questions or
- complaints send a message to brode@atari.archive.umich.edu.
-
- [ Note to 8-bit users: I only read the ST newsgroup so all followups and
- news posts about BART should be posted there. ]
-
-
-
-
- The Umich Atari Archive Help File
-
- Welcome to BART, Brode's Archive Retrieval Thang, the University of
- Michigan's Atari Archive mail server. To use the server, send a message to
- atari@atari.archive.umich.edu. The subject line is ignored. The body of
- the message should contain, one per line, any of the following commands.
- Each of the commands sends its output back to you via e-mail.
-
- help
- This command sends this file.
-
- index
- This command sends the archive's index. The index lists all
- of the files in the archive with a short description where
- available.
-
- path mail-address
- This command tells BART where to send the requested files.
- BART tries to send messages back to the address it finds in
- your From: line. If that is invalid, you must use this
- command to give BART a valid reply address.
-
- send directory/filename
- This command sends files from the archive. Binary files are
- uuencoded before they are sent. You must issue a send command
- for each file you want to receive. Use the index to find the
- directory and exact file name for your request. Here is an
- example of requesting the arc.ttp program from the Archivers
- directory:
- send Archivers/arc.ttp
- To get the list of new files in the archive:
- send 0new
-
- If you miss parts of a file, rather than re-request the whole
- thing, you can give BART a comma separated list of the parts
- you are missing and it will send you those parts. For example:
- send Languages/gcc.arc aa,ac,af
- The only way to get a file larger than your quota is to
- request the file by parts until you have the whole thing. A
- full part is approximately 30k of data.
-
- Note: BART does not accept wildcards such as ? or *.
-
- sendb directory/filename
- This command works just like the send command, except that
- all files are uuencoded before they are sent.
-
-
- The commands are not case sensitive, but the filenames are. Be careful you
- are using the correct case before complaining that the server is broken.
-
- BART enforces a quota of 1M or 10 files per 24 hour period. Your current
- quota can be found in the headers of the messages that BART sends you.
- Your quota is restored, in full, 24 hours after your last message to BART
- is received. If you are persistent enough, your quota may never be
- restored. BART does not queue requests that went over quota for later
- processing, you must re-send them 24 hours later. Quotas are given in
- Eastern Standard Time (-4 GMT).
-
- If you give a valid command (path, help, index, send, sendb) that cannot
- be processed, you will get an error message back. Otherwise, BART will
- silently dispose of your request.
-
- Submissions are always welcome. Please mail them to
- weiner@atari.archive.umich.edu
-
- Comments, Questions and Complaints about BART go to
- brode@atari.archive.umich.edu
-
-
- Jon Brode -- brode@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Supreme Commander of the Umich Atari Posse
-