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- From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: people without FTP access, please read this!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.020011.5141@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 02:00:11 GMT
- Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
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- People who don't have access to anonymous FTP can do FTP-by-mail, a
- public service operated by DEC. Send a message containing the single
- word "help" to "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com" for instructions.
-
- That's right!! You no longer need FTP access to get at files on
- anonymous FTP servers. Using FTP-Mail and the kindness of Digital
- Equipment Corp., you send a request script to the DEC server machine,
- and it fetches the files for you and mails them to your electronic
- mail doorstop! Try it, it works! FTP-Mail will even ASCII-encode and
- compress binary files upon request.
-
-
- If you are interested in Media Lab robotics stuff:
-
- The name of our FTP server (this will be required by FTPMAIL) is
- "cherupakha.media.mit.edu". You probably will want to start your
- queries by retrieving the file named "allfiles.ftp", which is at the
- top-level directory of our FTP server. This file is a recursive
- directory listing of all files on the server.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- - Fred
-
-
- Fred Martin | fredm@media.mit.edu | (617) 253-7143 | 20 Ames St. Rm. E15-301
- Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
-