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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Access to Archives?
- Message-ID: <56674@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:24:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug8.203551.773@dolphin.com>
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- In article <1992Aug8.203551.773@dolphin.com> zac@dolphin.com (Zacharias J.
- Beckman) writes:
- > Is there a means to reach the archive sites of NeXT software (i.e.:
- > sonata.cc.purdue.edu and nova.cc.purdue.edu) without FTP access? Is
- > there an anonymous UUCP account? Any other means? I would very much
- > appreciate details. Thank you!
-
- Wow, I just answered this a few days ago here. I'll check
- the FAQ and see if it needs some polishing so I can refer
- people there with more confidence.
-
- You can get files from sonata by sending email to:
-
- archive-server@cc.purdue.edu
-
- The subject can be anything you want since (normally) no
- one sees it. The body should be a list of commands.
-
- The main one is "send", as in:
-
- send next/2.0-release/source/Opener3.0.tar.Z
-
- (which you should get if you plan to do a lot of this, BTW.)
-
- That'll uuencode the file, split it into pieces, and mail
- it to you. You can control how this is done (like btoa
- instead of uuencode or cut it in different sized chunks)
- by using other commands.
-
- help
-
- Will send you a help file. I'm rewriting this because the
- current one is kind of ugly.
-
- The command "path" lets you change where the stuff is sent
- (in case you want it to go to another account or your mailer
- botches the header fields.) I could send something to you
- via the archive-server by saying:
-
- path zac@dolphin.com
-
- I hope that's enough info to get you started. Look around
- for my other posting as it was more detailed.
-
- As always, send Archive related mail to
- archive-management@cc.purdue.edu.
-
- ab
-