> How can I get the FAQs if I haven't got FTP? Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 21:55:01 -0400 (EDT) Retreival of the sourdough FAQs at sunSITE.unc.edu using Internet e-mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You should be able to retreive them using FTPMail at sunSITE. Here's the collection of docs I have on FTPMail. One of them is what you get when you send e-mail to: ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: help and/or: Message Text: help london@sunSITE.unc.edu - Subject: this is the ftp-mail doc... Valid commands to the email-ftp gateway are: reply-to email-address Who to send the response to. Defaults to your incoming email address open [site [user [pass]]] Site to ftp to. Defaults are sunsite.unc.edu anonymous reply-to-address. cd pathname change directory. ls [pathname] short listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. dir [pathname] long listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. get pathname get a file and email it back. compress compress files/dir-listings before emailing back uuencode btoa These are mutually exclusive options for converting a binary file before emailing. (Default is uuencode) force uuencode force btoa Force all files or directory listings to be encoded before sending back. There is no default. mode binary mode ascii change the mode selected for the get command. Defaults to binary. quit End of input - ignore any following lines. Example scripts are: open dir quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and send back the contents of the top level directory reply-to jem@lambada.oit.unc.edu open cd unix get buffer.shar quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and send back the file buffer.shar to jem@lambada.oit.unc.edu open sunsite.unc.edu cd /pub/Linux get 00-find.Linux cd ../X11/contrib compress ls -ltra quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu, send back the file 00-find.Linux.Z in /pub/Linux, which is a listing of all files in the Linux area. As this is a binary file it has to be transfered in binary mode. Because it is binary it will automagically be uuencoded (the default binary encoder). Then change to ../contrib and mail back a compressed directory listing. Although compressing ls output makes it binary, which then has to be encoded, it still ends up smaller than the original. open cd /pub/X11/contrib/R5fixes get fix-08 get fix-09 get sunGX.uu quit Retrieve some recent X fixes open cd gnu atob mode binary get emacs-18.59.tar.Z quit Retrieve the newest version of GNU Emacs in atob format >>From ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu Thu Aug 26 21:53:30 1993 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 21:21:07 EST From: FTP-MAIL daemon Valid commands to the email-ftp gateway are: reply-to email-address Who to send the response to. Defaults to your incoming email address open [site [user [pass]]] Site to ftp to. Defaults are sunsite.unc.edu anonymous reply-to-address. cd pathname change directory. ls [pathname] short listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. dir [pathname] long listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. get pathname get a fail and email back. compress compress files/dir-listings before emailing back uuencode btoa These are mutually exclusive options for converting a binary file before emailing. (Default is uuencode) force uuencode force btoa Force all files or directory listings to be encoded before sending back. There is no default. mode binary mode ascii change the mode selected for the get command. Defaults to binary. quit End of input - ignore any following lines. Example scripts are: open dir quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and send back the contents of the top level directory reply-to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk open cd pub get INDEX quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and send back the file INDEX to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk open src.doc.ic.ac.uk cd graphics/X11/X.V11R5 get ls-lR.Z cd ../contrib compress ls -ltra quit Connect to src.doc.ic.ac.uk, send back the file ls-lR.Z in graphics/X11/X.V11R5. As this is a binary file it has to be transfered in binary mode. Because it is binary it will automatically be uuencoded (the default binary encoder). Then change to ../contrib and mail back a compressed directory listing. Although compressing ls output makes it binary, which then has to be encoded, it still ends up smaller than the original. open cd graphics/X11/X.V11R5/fixes get fix-08 get fix-09 get sunGX.uu quit Retrieve some recent X fixes open cd gnu atob mode binary get emacs-18.57.tar.Z quit >>From ftpmail@calypso Thu Aug 26 21:54:31 1993 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 21:52:27 EDT From: File Transfer by Mail Subject: response response ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu - ftp's files and sends them back via electronic mail. If you have problems please email ftpkeeper@sunsite.unc.edu and quote the following line: $Revision: 1.19 $ >>Valid commands to the ftpmail gateway are: reply-to email-address Who to send the response to. This is optional and defaults to the users email address >>Followed by one of: help Just send back help delete jobid Delete the given job open [site [user [pass]]] Site to ftp to. Defaults are sunsite.unc.edu anonymous reply-to-address. >>If there was an open then it can be followed by up to 100 of the >>following commands cd pathname Change directory. ls [pathname] short listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. dir [pathname] long listing of pathname. Default pathname is current directory. get pathname Get a file and email it back. compress Compress files/dir-listings before emailing back gzip Gzip files/dir-listings before emailing back uuencode btoa These are mutually exclusive options for converting a binary file before emailing. (Default is uuencode.) force uuencode force btoa Force all files or directory listings to be encoded before sending back. There is no default. mime Send the message as a Mime Verson 1.0 message. Text will be sent as text/plain charset=US-ASCII Non-text as application/octet-stream. If the file is splitup then it will be sent as a message/partial. force mime As mime but force text files to be sent as application/octet-stream no [compress|gzip|uuencode|btoa|mime] Turn the option off. size num[K|M] Set the max size a file can be before it is split up and emailed back in parts to the given number of Kilo or Mega bytes. This is limited to 102400. mode binary mode ascii Change the mode selected for the get command. Defaults to binary. quit End of input - ignore any following lines. Example scripts are: open dir quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and send back the contents of the top level directory reply-to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk open cd unix get buffer.shar quit Connect to sunsite.unc.edu and send back the file buffer.shar to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk open src.doc.ic.ac.uk cd graphics/X11/X.V11R5 get ls-lR.Z cd ../contrib compress ls -ltra quit Connect to src.doc.ic.ac.uk, send back the file ls-lR.Z in graphics/X11/X.V11R5. As this is a binary file it has to be transfered in binary mode. Because it is binary it will automatically be uuencoded (the default binary encoder). Then change to ../contrib and mail back a compressed directory listing. Although compressing ls output makes it binary, which then has to be encoded, it still ends up smaller than the original. open cd graphics/X11/X.V11R5/fixes get fix-08 get fix-09 get sunGX.uu quit Retrieve some recent X fixes open cd gnu atob mode binary get emacs-18.57.tar.Z quit