tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 28 14:20:51 1995
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More ways...
- From: "That Whispering Wolf..." <[email protected]>
- Subject: More ways...
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 17:20:49 -0500
Alright, we now have yet another way to access the KLI file archives --
By FTPMail! For those not familiar with ftpmail, it's a way where you
can mail in commands to a program (via email) and it will execute them
in an FTP session on your behalf, and email the results back to you.
The address to send email to is [email protected]. If you send an email
with the word 'help' in the body, you will get a help document back,
explaining how to use ftpmail. As an example, you could send the following
message to get a list of all files on the server:
----- CUT HERE -----
open ftp.kli.org
cd /pub
get INDEX
----- CUT HERE -----
Or, in a more complex example, someone using PINE (or another MIME-compliant
mailer) could use the following to get a copy of the main README file
followed by a copy of /pub/GIFs/piqad.gif:
----- CUT HERE -----
open ftp.kli.org
mime
cd /pub
get README
cd GIFs
get piqad.gif
----- CUT HERE -----
Look over the help file, and if you still need help, ask me.
NOTES: This is not a public ftpmail server -- The only site it will connect
to is ftp.kli.org. Also, note that FTPmail is probably the most resource
intensive way to get files off the system, so please don't use it unless
other meathods are infeasable.
Enjoy. Comments to me.
-WW