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- NAME
-
- get
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- get <pattern>...
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- get retrieves files from a publicly readable archive.
-
- Each <pattern> specifies a set of desired files by name. The
- character "/" is the path name component separator. The wild card
- characters "*" and "?" match any string of characters and any one
- character except "/", respectively.
-
- All matching archive files are bundled into a multi-part MIME format
- message for return delivery. If any problems occur, the first part of
- the return message will contain appropriate information.
-
- OPTIONS
-
- It is preferred that ALL <pattern>s be specified in the "Subject:"
- line of a letter. However, one may choose to put ALL of them in the
- text body (content) of the message.
-
- get attempts to set the type/subtype fields
- appropriately. It currently knows about:
-
- C source text/x-c
- {La}TeX dvi image/x-dvi
- AutoCAD dxf text/x-dxf
- Express source text/x-express
- Fortran source text/x-fortran
- GIF images image/gif
- JPEG images image/jpeg
- FrameMaker source text/x-frame
- Postscript application/postscript
- Shell source application/x-sh
- Compressed tar application/octet-stream; type=tar;
- conversions=compress
- Tar archive application/octet-stream; type=tar
- {La}TeX source text/x-latex
- Tcl source text/x-tcl
-
- WARNING: Any type information with "x-" in it is likely to change.
- These are non-standard and the authors' knowledge of MIME is still
- incomplete.
-
- NOTES
-
- get guesses the file types primarily by filename
- extensions. On UNIX, this can be easily fooled.
-
- MANUAL HISTORY
-
- $Id: get.man,v 1.2 1993/02/10 21:46:30 sumrn Exp $
-
- $Log: get.man,v $
- Revision 1.2 1993/02/10 21:46:30 sumrn
- Updated prose and added type information for metamail users.
-