hv@nic.funet.fi (Harri Valkama - Uwasa) (12/31/90)
I have cleaned up my experimental mail server at nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) a little bit. I hope it better serves your requests now on. Here is the helpfile. Happy New Year (: ..................................................................... x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x x Welcome to funic.funet.fi (Finland) x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x Moderator: Harri Valkama (hv@funic.funet.fi) ************************** 1. MAIL SERVER INFORMATION ************************** funic-request Mac PD archive mail server This is the help file for the mail server located at funic.funet.fi This file can be requested by sending a null message or 'send help' command to hv@funic.funet.fi with a subject line of 'funic-request'. If that subject is not used, the request will not be handled properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * TO REPEAT: The Subject-line of the message MUST say 'funic-request'!! * * If it does not, I will get the mail and I will send you this file the * * first time, and delete your mail if it happens again. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To contact a human, make sure that 'funic-request' is NOT in your Subject-line. The server recognizes six commands. They are: path <path to your machine> If you want to use a different mail address to return the requests you must specify it using this command. You should contact your system administrator to get the optimized path especially if you are using UUCP or BANG paths to get your mail delivered to us. Our mail server checks the mail queue every 15 minutes so if you don't get response in a reasonable time you'd better check this one out with a little help from your friends. You can use this command with or without the corner characters. send help sends you this message. send index sends you a list of available files with descriptions send file this sends the file 'file' from the index. Remember to use filepath name if you are requesting a file from a subdirectory. That is if you want a file called docter235.sit from appl directory you must use request 'send appl/docter235.zip' The format for the file name when using ANONYMOUS FTP is e.g. pub/mac/appl/docter235.sit This FTP format is used in most of our news announcements. IMPORTANT!!! The format for the MAIL SERVER is shorter: appl/docter235.sit In other words omit pub/mac/ from the path when using our mail server. quit As a general rule, it is advisable to exclude your signature from your request to the mail-server or use this 'quit' command. 'quit' is useful if you have something in your .signature that might be interpreted as a server command. So if you wanted to retrieve '_files.in' from funic.funet.fi you could send mail with 'funic-request' as the subject-line with the body of the message being the text 'send _files.in'. For example: % mail hv@funic.funet.fi Subject: funic-request send _files.in ^D % How to extract : ----------------- The files are sent using 'mailsplit' that takes care of the uuencoding, splitting, and sending. Save the parts into the same file and then remove the mail headers from it. Run uudecode and you should have the binary file. --------- This server is based on the KISS package provided by Bill Wells (bill@twwells.com) and Jon Granrose (odin@pilot.njin.net). Many thanks for a fine package. I have included the MailSplit utilization to this package. I like to thank M F Wyle and H. Yamanaka for the wonderful program. It gave this server ability to deliver also binary files. Harri Valkama (hv@funic.funet.fi) ************************************ 2. FTP and GENERAL INFORMATION ************************************ Files you find here are usually Stuffit-files (MacBinary files) (file types .sit, .bin, .cpt and .sea are MacBinary, .zoo files are normal binary and .shar files Unix shell archived files). You need StuffIt to unpack .sit files and Compactor to unpack .cpt files. Or use Extractor to unpack both. All these can be found in mac/arcers dir. .sea files are Self-Extracting-Archives that is you can run them (applications) and they extracts. MacBinary is sort of concept that Mac OS likes the files to be. So when these MacBinary files are trasferred as NORMAL BINARY the resource and data forks are combined together somewhat dissimilar way as what happens when transferring them as MacBinary. So when you can't use MacBinary protocol REMEMBER USE BINARY. But if you can't use MacBinary PROTOCOL when downloading these files to your Mac you must use a PROGRAM called MacBinary to prepare the .sit files for Stuffit. But you must use binary transfer in that case too. You can find MacBinary program here in BinHex format, too. So when you have downloaded the files as normal binary you must run them also through this MacBinary program. Drop me a line if you have difficulties/suggestions concerning this archive site. If you want to upload us Mac PD stuff please feel free to use directory called 'pub/mac/incoming'. You can't actually see this directory but it is there and you can 'put' into it. After you have put files there drop me a mail so that I know to fetch them from there right away. And I can then thank you from your upload. You can find a short description of files in this directory in the file called INDEX -- == Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ================================ P.O. Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (tel:+358 61 248426 fax:+358 61 248465) hv@uwasa.fi hv@nic.funet.fi hkv@flame.uwasa.fi harri.valkama@wmac00.uwasa.fi Moderating at chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)