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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!kiae!relcom!usenet
- From: evsikov@lcta5.jinr.dubna.su (Igor Evsikov)
- Subject: RE: List of the routine...(FTP Mail Service)
- Message-ID: <ADzngZg0I6@lcta5.jinr.dubna.su>
- Lines: 111
- Sender: news-service@kiae.su
- Reply-To: evsikov@lcta5.jinr.dubna.su
- Organization: Lcta
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 23:29:01 +0300
-
- >Tuesday August 11 1992, Timo Salmi writes to All:
-
- > TS> 88338 Jun 13 21:02 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tspa2840.zip
- > ...
- >I don't have ftp access. Is there anywhere out in the BBS world where these
- >can be found? Direct E-Mail would be appreciated...
-
- USE FTPMAIL:
-
- *******************************************
- * ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com {FTP Mail} *
- *******************************************
-
- >>> $Id: help-text,v 1.3 1992/06/13 18:06:56 vixie Exp $
- >>>
- >>> 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,
- and it executes before any LS/DIR/GETs)
- 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
- chunksize SIZE split files into SIZE-byte chunks (def: 64000)
- ls (or dir) PLACE short (long) directory listing
- get FILE get a file and have it mailed to you
- (max 10 GET's per ftpmail session)
- quit terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
- (use if you have a .signature or
- are a VMSMAIL user)
-
- >>> notes:
- -> you should send complaints to the ftpmail-request address. our
- postmaster does not handle ftpmail problems and you can save her
- the trouble of forwarding your complaints by just mailing them to
- the right address.
-
- -> the "Subject:" of your request will be contained in the "Subject:"
- of all of ftpmail's responses to you regarding that request. You
- can therefore use it to "tag" different requests if you have more
- than one outstanding at any given time.
-
- -> 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.
- note that many files are already compressed. if you use any of
- the binary-file qualifiers (compress, compact, uuencode, btoa)
- without setting 'binary' first, your session will abort in error.
-
- -> binary files will always be formatted into printable ASCII
- with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa"). if you don't
- use the "binary" command, ftpmail will cheerfully try to mail
- you the binary data, which will absolutely, positively fail.
-
- -> all retrieved files will be split into chunks and mailed. the
- size of the chunk is 50000 characters unless you change it with
- the "chunksize" command. CompuServe users will need to set this
- to 49000.
-
- -> if you ask for more than 10 files in a session, you will receive
- an error message and your entire request will be rejected.
-
- -> 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 using 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.
-
- -> there is no way to request only certain parts of a file and we
- do not plan to add one in the near future, so please don't ask.
-
- -> there is no way to delete things from the queue or to find out
- the status of things in the queue, and we do not plan to add
- either feature in the near future, so please don't ask.
-
- >>> 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
- uuencode
- chdir /pub/GNU
- get emacs-18.58.tar.Z
- quit
-
- -> connect to ftp.uu.net as anonymous and get a root directory list:
- connect ftp.uu.net
- dir
- quit
-
-
-