root@nixbbs.uucp (System Operator) (06/25/91)
Hi, I'm running a SysV system, and am looking for something like FTP -- mainly, you mail my system a command, like "directory", and it does that command and mail the request back to you. You can request it to "send" files to you, or you can "put" (upload) files to it, by mailing. Basic- ally, I'm looking for something as close to "FTP-by-mail" as can be had on a SysV UNIX machine. Is there anything like this out there, and if so, can someone please mail it to me? (As a last resort, I have a friend with a UNIX account I can pressure into letting me borrow, if any FTPing needs to be done...) -- +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ : Donald Burr, SysAdmin, NIXBBS, Carpinteria : "Yes, Star Trek *IS* a way of : : EMAIL: uunet!quadron!sbanet!nixbbs!dburr : life." -- Charles Gousha : +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+
james@dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun25.002026.997@nixbbs.uucp> root@nixbbs (System Operator) writes: | |Hi, I'm running a SysV system, and am looking for something like FTP -- |mainly, you mail my system a command, like "directory", and it does that |command and mail the request back to you. You can request it to "send" |files to you, or you can "put" (upload) files to it, by mailing. Basic- |ally, I'm looking for something as close to "FTP-by-mail" as can be had |on a SysV UNIX machine. You need a mail-server not FTP. "ftp" is file transfer protocol and is a "lan/wan/ether/token net" protocol. A mail-server will take "certain" commands from the subject line of mail messages and then process them in a prescribed way. Try getting your friend to check out the archie program at quiche.cs.mcgill.ca; login archie; run something like "prog server".... that should give you a good list to peruse.