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- Syntax: get <archive | path-to-archive> <file> [/password] [parts]
- Syntax: view <archive | path-to-archive> <file> [/password] [parts]
- Get the specified file from the specified archive. The file may
- have been split into parts because some mailers cannot send large
- files, and in this case you will receive as many messages as the
- number of parts the file has been split into. Binary files are
- uuencoded, so you will need to combine all the parts sent and
- uudecode. The requested file may be a tar file (containing other
- files and perhaps directories) in which case when you uudecode,
- a tar file will be created and you will need to run the UNIX
- utility 'tar' on it to extract the files and directories.
-
- If certain parts are specified, then only these parts (if they exist)
- will be sent. The parts are specified as numbers separated by spaces.
- You may not specify ranges of parts (e.g. 1-3).
-
- Certain archives may be private, in which case you have to specify
- a password (the slash is required) in order to obtain files from
- them. Different archives may have different passwords, but all files
- from the same archive may be obtained with the same password.
-
- Archives may have the same names; they can be distinguished by the
- path (the branch in the hierarchy) to them. For example, the archives
- unix and pub/unix are distinct. 'path-to-archive' is a UNIX style
- path (such as pub/unix) -- i.e. a '/' is used to move through the
- branches of the hierarchy. An 'index' request always reports paths
- to archives for your convinience.
-
- "view" only makes a difference in interactive mode when a user wishes
- to simply look at the file and not save it to disk.
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