root@beowulf.UUCP (pilot and all 'round good guy) (05/01/91)
How to use the Program Archive at Beowulf
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Bob Bownes (bownesrm@beowulf.uucp) 1/17/89
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An automatic mail forwarder is used to retrieve archived materials
from the "beowulf" system. To use it, follow these simple directions.
1) Send message to "snarf-32k@beowulf.uucp" or "beowulf!snarf-32k" or
"snarf-6000@beowulf.uucp" or "beowulf!snarf-6000" depending on the
archive you want. Snarf-6000 is the Tandy 6000 archives, and snarf-32k
is the USENET 32k-project archives.
2) For a Subject, use only the word "snarf"
3) For the body of the message, use the following commands, each
starting in the 1st column:
snarf index
This returns an up-to-date index of what files
are available
snarf directory <dir>
This gives a current listing of the files available
in directory <dir> (i.e, "Games", "Editors", etc.)
snarf files <file> [<file> ...]
This command requests selected files be sent by
return mail to the sender of the message. All files
should be specified relative to a directory, and
wild-card character expansion is allowed.
NOTE: Please Do Not do a snarf files */*. This ties up the phone For A Long
Time Uneccesarily. I guarantee you that you won't be able to use all
4Mb of this at once anyway. If you want everything, either spread it
over a number of days or ask me and I can probably get it onto some form
of media you can read. If the practice of snarfing */* continues,
I'll turn it off...Sorry to be a tyrant, but I'm paying the phone
bills.
Example:
snarf files Games/larn* Mail/ease*
Requested files / info will be sent using the "From_" header field,
so this must be syntactically correct (some mailers insert domains
in this field, which is incorrect!).
Any problems, questions or comments should be mailed to me.
Bob Bownes - bownesrm@beowulf.uucp
Much thanks is due to Tim Northrup @ brspyr1 who wrote the first version
of this and supplied it to me. I converted it for use on systems without
.forward capability and rewrote it in C.