[comp.sys.ibm.pc] how do I access SIMTEL20 from a uucp site?

bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce KING) (01/09/90)

  I run a public-access unix site in Seattle Washington, and I'd like to 
make it easy for people to get to SIMTEL20's archives.  What I'm looking
for is either a way to download files via email (ala uunet's netlib feature)
or some other way to get to the files on that machine without an ftp account.

(I don't have the $$$ to hook my machine up, and I don't have access to
any ftp-capable machine)

  This is probably a request that comp.sys.ibm.pc gets at least once a week,
but I've been reading for the last 2 months & must have missed the replies.

  What I'd like to do:  get a few hundred megabytes of files off of SIMTEL20
and make them available to the random modem-owning public via dialup line
& xmodem/ymodem/zmodem/kermit or whatever they want to use to get the files.
  
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uw-beaver!sumax!polari![root,sysop,bruceki] (night job) or voice at
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fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) (01/12/90)

In article <10186@microsoft.UUCP> bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce KING) writes:
>
>  I run a public-access unix site in Seattle Washington, and I'd like to 
>make it easy for people to get to SIMTEL20's archives.  What I'm looking
>for is either a way to download files via email (ala uunet's netlib feature)
>or some other way to get to the files on that machine without an ftp account.


The following is a script file that I run on my UNIX station to mail SIMTEL
requests to a list server.  It is a mod from one I was given on the net.

#-------- BEGIN -----------------
# 'file' is location of a temporary file
file=/usr/tmp/simrequest
# 'me' is my mail address
me=uunet!ingr!b23b!dragon!keith
# 'listserv' is address of list server
listserv=b23b\!ingr\!uunet\!vm1.nodak.edu\!listserv
# print help if they goofed
if (test "$#" -ne "3")
  then
    echo
    echo "usage: getsimtel <disk> <directory> <filename>"
    echo
    echo "Example: getsimtel pd1 msdos.filedocs simibm.arc" 
    exit
fi
echo "/PDGET MAIL $1:<$2>$3 ( UUENCODE" > $file
# mail our request, 'fastmail' from ELM product
fastmail -r $me -F $me -s Request $file $listserv
echo "getsimtel done"
#--------- END --------------------------
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