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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:12:40 CST
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- From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Email Access to Etext Files
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- We have been receiving a lot of requests from people who have email, but
- not ftp, gopher, veronica, WAIS, etc. . .so:
-
- **** Etexts Can Be Received As Email From Oregon State ****
-
- Name; the Almanac Information Server, located at the Extension Service
- at Oregon State University, allows text retrieval both through ftp and
- email. Works from To retrieve a file via ftp:
-
- ftp oes.orst.edu (128.193.124.2)
- Log in as `anonymous' and your login name as a password.
- cd /pub/almanac/etext
- ls (to get a list of files)
- bin (to switch to binary mode)
- get filename (where `filename' was one of the files listed)
- bye (when done)
-
- ***
-
- To retrieve a file via e-mail, first send the following line by
- itself to almanac@oes.orst.edu
-
- send gutenberg catalog
-
- This will instruct you how to send further requests, and will list
- the available files. For example, to retrieve _Alice's Adventures
- in Wonderland_, send to almanac@oes.orst.edu
-
- send gutenberg alice
-
- =====================================================
-
- Thank you for your interest,
-
- Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
- Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
- Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
- No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
- hart @uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
-