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Another way to get files is to use a mail server. This assumes that you can
send mail to Internet addresses and get mail from Internet hosts. It works
by sending a mail to the server specifying some commands, for example
send commands for the files you want. Important mail servers are
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
mailserver@nic.funet.fi
mailserver@leo.org
mrcserv@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
mail-server@ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
The most important commands are:
- Help
- Tells the server that you wish to get an Ascii file containing detailed
explanation how to use the server.
- Limit <number>
- Specifys that you wish to get not more than <number> Kbytes per mail.
Larger files get splitted into small pieces of at most <number> Kbytes which
are sent as separate mails each. Note that the mails may get larger because
of overhead.
- Cwd <dir>
- Sets the current working directory to <dir>. This directory is used by the
commands send and dir.
- Index
- will return a list of files and/or directories that the server offers. Note
that this may be very large!
- Index <item>
- returns a list of files containing <item> in their names.
- Dir [<dir>]
- returns a list of the files and directories in the given directory.
- Send <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>
- Tells the server to send the given files to you.
- Begin
- Tells the server to ignore all lines above this command.
- End
- Like Begin, but specifies to ignore the lines below. (A signature for
example!)
A typical session would be to send the following mail to the mail server:
BEGIN
CD /pub/aminet/util/arc
SEND LhA_e138.run
END
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