snow@china.uu.net (John Snow) (10/26/89)
I am in need of some information on ftp procedures. We are connected to a 'uunet' server which we automatically dial up several times a day to exchange mail. According to our extensive documentation :-), we do have a type of ftp capability. All you have to do is issue th following incantation: uucp -r uunet\!/usr/spool/ftp/<filepath> /usr/spool/uucppublic and sit back and wait for the magic to happen. Of course you do have to specify a file in <filepath>. Now if I wanted to get the file that lists all the other available files from both summex and apple.com (which is what I want to do), what would I put in place of <filepath> to cause this wonderous thing to happen? Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks in advance, John Snow -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: John Snow MDC | any opinions are purely accidental :: Denver, Colorado | and not the fault of the management ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
brunner@practic.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner) (10/29/89)
In article <157@salt.UUCP> snow@salt.UUCP (John Snow) writes: > According to our extensive documentation :-), we do >have a type of ftp capability. All you have to do is issue the >following incantation: > >uucp -r uunet\!/usr/spool/ftp/<filepath> /usr/spool/uucppublic > >and sit back and wait for the magic to happen. Of course you do have >to specify a file in <filepath>. Now if I wanted to get the file that >lists all the other available files from both summex and apple.com >(which is what I want to do), what would I put in place of <filepath> >to cause this wonderous thing to happen? Pathnames of files "available" for either anonymous ftp or public uucp with read (and occasionally write) and execute (search) permissions on the remote host are frequently found a file "ls-lR" and "ls-tlR". Sites with large public spool areas often have a compressed version of the files as well, named with a ".Z" suffix. These are typically two-thirds smaller and cost less to retrieve. Look in any of the following places: /usr/spool/uucp /usr/spool/uucp/uucppublic /usr/spool/ftp /usr/spool/ftp/pub Eric