mlaidlaw@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Mike Laidlaw) (05/27/91)
I am an amiga user who would like to download stuff off ab20.I do not have
any experience in downloading from an ftp site nor do I have the facility to
do so.I have heard that there are e-mail sites which accept script commands
that allow you to indirectly ftp a site to download stuff.The e-mail ftp
service I know of is FTPMAIL@decwrl.dec.com.
My questions are (using FTPMAIL):
(1) How do I get a listing of all the files in ab20 ?
(2) How do I download file(s) ?
(3) How do I upload file(s) ?
(4) Does ab20 have specific commands for other uses ?
Any other information on ab20 and the use of e-mail ftp services would be
greatly appreciated.Also,does anyone have a list of other e-mail ftp services
that I could use instead of FTPMAIL ?
Thanks in advance
Myron :-)dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) (05/28/91)
First of all, here's the original post detailing the use of ftpmail: ----- begin included article ----- From: ksk@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Ken S. Krebs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: FTPMail Keywords: BITFTP FTP FTPMAIL FILES WANK Message-ID: <1991May21.170130.22407@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> Date: 21 May 91 17:01:30 GMT Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix Lines: 41 Okay Folks, here's a replacement for BITFTP. It's called FTPMail and the mailing address is: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com If you send a letter with only the word "help" in it, the following letter will be spit back at you. >>> this help file was last edited on 15-February-1991 >>> >>> commands are: reply <MAILADDR> set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]] defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous ascii files grabbed are printable ascii binary files grabbed are compressed or tar or both compress compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding compact compress binaries using Huffman encoding uuencode binary files will be mailed in uuencode format btoa binary files will be mailed in btoa format ls (or dir) PLACE short (long) directory listing get FILE get a file and have it mailed to you quit terminate script, ignore rest of mail message (use if you have a .signature or are a VMSMAIL user) >>> notes: -> you must give a "connect" command, default host is gatekeeper.dec.com, default user is anonymous, default password is your mail address. -> binary files will not be compressed unless 'compress' or 'compact' command is given; use this if at all possible, it helps a lot. -> binary files will always be formatted into printable ASCII with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa"). -> all retrieved files will be split into 60KB chunks and mailed. -> VMS/DOS/Mac versions of uudecode, atob, compress and compact are available, ask your LOCAL wizard about them. ----- end of included article ----- In article <1991May27.114443.3485@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> mlaidlaw@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Mike Laidlaw) writes: >My questions are (using FTPMAIL): > > (1) How do I get a listing of all the files in ab20 ? Request the file FILES.Z in the root directory. Note that this file is compressed with the Unix "compress" utility, so make sure that you have binary mode on when you request it. > (2) How do I download file(s) ? See above included article. > (3) How do I upload file(s) ? I don't see anything in the above to indicate that you could. Contact the poster if you're really interested. > (4) Does ab20 have specific commands for other uses ? I don't understand what you're asking here... Hope this helps. -- Dave Schaumann | There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool dave@cs.arizona.edu | following it. - Niven's Law # 16