scott@unisoft.UUCP (Scott Gustafson) (05/03/90)
steve@hite386.UUCP (Steve Hite) writes: >...gatech!uflorida!unf7!hite386!steve >I was wondering if there is a way >to get Mac files from sumex via a mail archiver? Someone had mentioned >recently that he had thought a listserver at rice could get there but >I tried sending a /PDGET HELP to ...!rice.edu!listserv and got back >a message saying "unknown address". Can anyone shed some light on this? I just got through reading an article in comp.sys.mac so I enclosed it. scott Scott Gustafson UniSoft Corp., 10700 N. DeAnza Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 366-4901 {uunet,hoptoad,fai,bdt,sun,lll-lcc,mtxinu,basis,ucbvax,apple}!unisoft!scott -------------------------------------cut here------------------------------ Path: unisoft!hoptoad!pacbell!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!motcid!derosa From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: ftp'able Tech Notes Message-ID: <2644@crystal9.UUCP> Date: 26 Apr 90 20:20:19 GMT werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes: >In article <11913@wpi.wpi.edu> jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay van Achterberg) writes: >>The Macintosh Technical Notes are available for FTP from >>rascal.ics.utexas.edu (128.83.144.1)........ Another source is a uunet connection of; ============== enclosed information =========================== John: I saw your posting on Usenet re: dialup access to the Sumex archives. I am in a similar situation, not being able to FTP from our site. My solution came when I found out about the Listserver at Rice University in Texas. Basically, they have ported all the Sumex archives over to the listserver and made them available via uucp emailing techniques. From your bang path i can see that you are connected to uunet, so the process is really pretty easy. The address of the server is listserv@ricevm1.rice.edu or uunet!ricevm1.rice.edu!listserv Send email to this address. In the body of the message, starting each line in the left column, type the following: $MACARCH GET $MACARCH.CONTENTS $MACARCH GET $MACARCH.RECENT HELP INFO ? INFO REFCARD $MAC HELP (end of message body) That should get you going. The first two lines will get you full directory listings of the files available. The first is ALL the files; the second is just the last couple months of new submissions. New postings to Sumex will typically show up at Rice within a few days. The last four lines above will get you various help files, command keyword descriptions, etc. You can dig further and learn from there ... that's how I figured it out.
rth@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Hughes) (05/05/90)
There does seem to be a size limitation. For a file over 100K some machines in the path seem to have a size limit for their mailer and thus rice will send out a file >100K but it never gets to my machine. If there's a fix, such as a way to get rice to break files up before mailing I'd like to know.