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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:40:11 MST
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- From: Michael Soo <soo@CS.ARIZONA.EDU>
- Subject: spatiotemporal bibliography
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- Greetings, and thanks for the enthusiastic response to the
- spatiotemporal bibliography we've just completed. The number
- of requests for the bibliography has just been overwhelming.
- So overwhelming, in fact, that were having a very hard time
- mailing it to all those who've requested it!
-
- If you would like a copy of the document or the database and do not
- have ftp access, we ask that you first try the ftpmail facility available
- on cs.arizona.edu. Simply send an e-mail message to ftpmail@cs.arizona.edu
- that contains the ftp commands needed to retrieve the desired files. The
- subject line of the message is irrelevant.
-
- For example, to retrieve both the postscript bibliography and the
- bibliographic database, the body of the message should contain the
- following.
-
- open
- cd bib
- get spacetime.bib
- get spacetime.ps
-
- The files will be mailed back to you, divided into chunks that can
- be glued together with the help of your favorite editor. The man page
- for ftpmail is appended below in case anyone has further questions.
- If, for some reason, you are not able to get ftpmail to work, please
- let us know, and we will get the documents to you.
-
- Thanks again for the interest in the bibliography. We're happy to
- be able to provide it to the research community, and we hope
- you find it useful.
-
- Mike Soo
- soo@cs.arizona.edu
-
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- FTPMAIL(L) LOCAL COMMANDS FTPMAIL(L)
-
-
-
- NAME
- ftpmail - FTP access via electronic mail
-
- SYNOPSIS
- mail ftpmail@cs.arizona.edu
-
- DESCRIPTION
- ftpmail gives any person with email connectivity access to
- the University of Arizona Computer Science Department
- anonymous ftp site. ftpmail takes a script contained in the
- body of an email message and follows it to obtain listings
- and transfer files from a remote network site. The subject
- line of the message is ignored. Large files will be split
- into manageable chunks, each of which will be mailed to the
- user. Binary files will be made suitable for email with
- either uuencode or btoa.
-
- COMMANDS
- Valid commands to the ftpmail server are:
-
- reply-to email-address
- Who to send the response to. Defaults to your incoming
- email address.
-
- help
- Send this help file. All other instructions are
- ignored.
-
- open [ site [ user [ pass ] ] ]
- The open command is mandatory. Only cs.arizona.edu can
- be accessed from this server, but it must be specified
- as the site to log in as any user other than anonymous.
- User and password can be specified for users with
- accounts on cs.arizona.edu. Defaults are
- cs.arizona.edu, anonymous, reply-to address.
-
- cd pathname
- change directory
-
- ls [ pathname ]
- get short listing of pathname (defaults to current
- directory).
-
- ls -lR [ pathname ]
- long recursive listing of pathname (defaults to current
- directory).
-
- dir [ pathname ]
- long listing of pathname defaults to current directory.
-
- get pathname
- get a file and email back to user.
-
-
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- FTPMAIL(L) LOCAL COMMANDS FTPMAIL(L)
-
-
-
- compress
- compress files and directory listings using compress(1)
- before emailing back to user.
-
- btoa | uuencode
- These are mutually exclusive options for converting a
- binary file before emailing. Default is uuencode(1).
-
- force btoa | uuencode
- Force all files or directory listings to be encoded
- before sending back. There is no default.
-
- mode ascii | binary
- Set the mode selected for the get command. Defaults to
- binary.
-
- quit
- End of input - ignore any following lines.
-
- EXAMPLES
- Connect to cs.arizona.edu and send back a long listing of
- the top level of the ftp directory.
- open
- dir
- quit
-
- Connect to cs.arizona.edu and send back the files tachie.lab and
- nikkei.ai from the japan/kahaner.reports directory to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk
- reply-to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk
- open
- cd japan/kahaner.reports
- get tachie.lab
- get nikkei.ai
- quit
-
- Connect to cs.arizona.edu, send back the file TR91-14.ps.Z in the
- reports/1991 directory. As this is a binary file it has to be transferred
- in binary mode. Because it is binary it will automatically
- be uuencoded (the default binary encoder). Then change to ../../icon
- 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 reports/1991
- get TR91-14.ps.Z
- cd ../../icon
- compress
- ls -ltra
- quit
-
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- FTPMAIL(L) LOCAL COMMANDS FTPMAIL(L)
-
-
-
- SEE ALSO
- ftp(1C), ls(1V),
-
- BUGS
- Whatever are inherent in mail, perl (ftpmail is written in
- perl) and ftp, and probably others.
-