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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Using the pit-manager FAQ archive mail-server (LONGISH, BORING)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.184727.4026@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:47:27 GMT
- References: <steve.714759832@crash> <1992Aug26.092555.1761@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <steve.714848578@crash>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 137
-
- steve@crash.cts.com (Steve Morrison) writes:
- >As a matter of fact, I did [read?] your Meta-FAQ, but I don't
- >have FTP privileges on this system.
- >
- >How about E-mail??
-
- Sorry to take so long to respond. This answer is also to the person
- that mailed and asked the same question.
-
- As the Meta-FAQ states, you can get the Linux FAQ by sending e-mail to
- mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu, with the word help in the subject.
- This is the mail that I sent (without extraneous or irrelevant headers):
-
- > From: wirzeniu@kruuna (Lars Wirzenius)
- > To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
- > Subject: help
-
- The server then sent me a document that describes how to use the server.
- I won't include the whole thing here, but the relevant parts are:
-
- > From: Mr Background <daemon@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
- > To: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
- > Subject: Reply from mserv re: help (part 1 of 1)
- >[...]
- > index Get the top-level index of files available from the
- > archive server.
- >
- > send <filename> Get a particular file. For example, to get the "Mel"
- > file in the "humor" archive, you would use "send
- > humor/Mel". To get an index for one of the archives,
- > you would use "send <archive>/index", e.g. "send
- > humor/index".
-
- Ok, so I wanted to get an index of the whole archive. I sent this:
-
- > From: wirzeniu@kruuna (Lars Wirzenius)
- > To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
- >
- > index
- > quit
-
- ...and got another longish document, the relevant parts of which are:
-
- > From: Mr Background <daemon@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
- > To: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
- > Subject: Reply from mserv re: index (part 1 of 1)
- >
- > The following archives are available at this site:
- >[...]
- > usenet Regular informational postings from various newsgroups
- > on the Usenet.
- >[...]
-
- That certainly sounds interesting. To get an index listing of that
- archive, I sent this:
-
- > From: wirzeniu@kruuna (Lars Wirzenius)
- > To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
- > Subject: send usenet/index
-
- (Note that you can have commands both in the subject and in the body of
- the message. The first help file describes things in more detail.)
-
- The relevant parts of the listing that came back are:
-
- > From: Mr Background <daemon@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
- > To: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
- > Subject: Reply from mserv re: send usenet/index (part 1 of 1)
- >
- > The following is a list of the files in the usenet archive.
- > (A "d" as the first character of a line indicates a subarchive.)
- >
- >[...]
- > drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Jul 8 03:17 comp.os.linux
- >[...]
-
- Getting closer. To get an index of the archive for comp.os.linux, I
- sent this:
-
- > From: wirzeniu@kruuna (Lars Wirzenius)
- > To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
- > Subject: send usenet/comp.os.linux/index
-
- And as promptly as ever, I received this as a reply:
-
- > From: Mr Background <daemon@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
- > To: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
- > Subject: Reply from mserv re: send usenet/comp.os.linux/index (part 1 of 1)
- >
- > -----cut here-----
- > The following is a list of the files in the usenet/comp.os.linux archive.
- > (A "d" as the first character of a line indicates a subarchive.)
- >
- > total 287
- > -rw-rw-r-- 2 root 45291 Jun 13 02:50 L_F_A_Q_1_2_[m_p]
- > -rw-rw-r-- 2 root 51328 Jun 13 02:50 L_F_A_Q_2_2_[m_p]
- > -rw-rw-r-- 2 root 45291 Jun 13 02:50 Linux_Frequently_Asked_Questions_1_2_[monthly_posted]
- > -rw-rw-r-- 2 root 51328 Jun 13 02:50 Linux_Frequently_Asked_Questions_2_2_[monthly_posted]
- > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 96568 Jul 8 03:17 faq_06.1
- > -----cut here-----
-
- The above is the whole listing (except for some deleted mail headers).
- From the above listing, the file faq_06.1 seems to be the most newest
- one, so I sent this:
-
- > From: wirzeniu@klaava (Lars Wirzenius)
- > To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
- > Subject: send usenet/comp.os.linux/faq_06.1
-
- And to my utter surprise, I got the Linux FAQ. Wow.
-
- faq_06.1 is so long that it was (automatically) broken into two pieces,
- so I got two mails:
-
- > From: Mr Background <daemon@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
- > To: wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
- > Subject: Reply from mserv re: send usenet/comp.os.linux/faq_06.1 (part 1 of 2)
- >
- >[ part 1 of the FAQ deleted ]
-
- > From: Mr Background <daemon@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
- > To: wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
- > Subject: Reply from mserv re: send usenet/comp.os.linux/faq_06.1 (part 2 of 2)
- >
- >[ part 2 of the FAQ deleted ]
-
- I encourage anybody who is going to use that archive to any greater
- degree to go through all the steps, since most of what I have deleted is
- actually quite useful information. I just didn't want to include it all
- in this posting (the mailbox was almost 600 lines without the FAQ
- itself).
-
- I assume that using the ftp-to-mail services are similar, although I
- haven't tried any of those.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-