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- From: jem@sunsite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
- Subject: the return of ftpmail
- Summary: ftpmail is back!
- Keywords: uucp and fidonet people rejoice
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.220313.26190@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 22:03:13 GMT
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Lines: 109
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
-
- sunsite's ftpmail service is back. I have (knock on wood)
- gotten rid of the evil bugs which brought the universe
- to its knees.
-
- for those who don't know, ftpmail allows retrieval of files
- from anonymous FTP sites for people who only have access to
- email. The file is then uuencoded (if its binary) and e-mailed to
- you in bite-sized chunks.
-
- Right now, I ask that you only use ftpmail to access sunsite
- or other archives that allow 24 hour access. Later I'm going to
- add the ability to tell the difference between requests to sunsite which
- can be served constantly and those to other places which will be queued
- until network-friendly hours.
-
- attached is the ftpmail help file
-
- --------------------
-
- Valid commands to the email-ftp gateway are:
-
- reply-to email-address Who to send the response to. Defaults to
- your incoming email address
- open [site [user [pass]]] Site to ftp to. Defaults are
- sunSITE.unc.edu anonymous reply-to-address.
- cd pathname change directory.
- ls [pathname] short listing of pathname. Default pathname
- is current directory.
- dir [pathname] long listing of pathname. Default pathname
- is current directory.
- get pathname get a file and email it back.
-
- compress compress files/dir-listings before emailing back
-
- uuencode
- btoa
- These are mutually exclusive options for
- converting a binary file before emailing.
- (Default is uuencode)
- force uuencode
- force btoa
- Force all files or directory listings to
- be encoded before sending back.
- There is no default.
-
- mode binary
- mode ascii
- change the mode selected for the get
- command. Defaults to binary.
- quit End of input - ignore any following lines.
-
-
-
- Example scripts are:
-
- open
- dir
- quit
- Connect to sunSITE.unc.edu and send back the contents of the top level
- directory
-
-
- reply-to jem@lambada.oit.unc.edu
- open
- cd unix
- get buffer.shar
- quit
- Connect to sunSITE.unc.edu and send back the file buffer.shar to
- jem@lambada.oit.unc.edu
-
-
- open sunSITE.unc.edu
- cd /pub/Linux
- get 00-find.Linux
- cd ../X11/contrib
- compress
- ls -ltra
- quit
- Connect to sunSITE.unc.edu, send back the file 00-find.Linux.Z in
- /pub/Linux As this is a binary file it has to be transfered
- in binary mode. Because it is binary it will automagically
- be uuencoded (the default binary encoder). Then change to ../contrib
- and mail back a compressed directory listing. Although compressing ls
- output makes it binary, which then has to be encoded, it still ends up
- smaller than the original.
-
- open
- cd /pub/X11/contrib/R5fixes
- get fix-08
- get fix-09
- get sunGX.uu
- quit
- Retrieve some recent X fixes
-
-
- open
- cd gnu
- atob
- mode binary
- get emacs-18.59.tar.Z
- quit
-
- Retrieve the newest version of GNU Emacs in atob format
-
-
- --
- Jonathan Magid jem@sunSITE.unc.edu sunSITE Administrator
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