Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!usc!skat.usc.edu!acliu From: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Proposed archive Summary: Beta testing a Mail Archive Keywords: Announcement Message-ID: <20851@usc.edu> Date: 27 Oct 89 19:31:46 GMT References: <4841@ncar.ucar.edu> <3855@loper.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) Organization: Maze Inc. Lines: 110 In article <3855@loper.cs.vu.nl> Richard Vermaas writes: >thor@stout.ucar.edu (Rich Neitzel) writes: >>Well, I've seen a number of people ask about ftp sites for CBM items >>in the last few months, but no mention of actual sites. So I am going >>to propose a slightly different archive - an email based one. >Yes, please do. Over here we have a group of people with c64's who have Since, I had some free time over here, I wrote a e-mail based archive in bourne shell. And set it up in my student account at usc.edu. So you can all try it out, and see what happens. (A big 4 hour hack for you to play with...) Note that the server is in state of beta testing, that is, I have tested the major functions and seems to me that it works, but you can't say that until it has been tested in "real life". To make it work, you have to send mail to ME, at: acliu%skat@usc.edu or acliu@skat.usc.edu (Those are Internet Addresses, if your system doesn't support those, see your local e-mail guru. All sites, have one of those guys! :-) Anyways, back to the e-mail archive server... in the subject line you should put: Subject: Mail-Archive-Request (This is VERY important, the Server will read the message and if it sees that line, it will process your request, otherwise, it will think that is a normal mail message destined to me.) The server will understand the following commands in the message: path help send contents index receive The following is the file that you would get if you send a help request: Introduction to Alex's Mail Archive Server ========================================== NOTE: This archive server has nothing to do with USC. It is a service provided by me to the Net. Please do not abuse this service, I am only a student here, and wouldn't afford get kicked out of school because of this joke of Archive! The idea of this Server is to serve request of popular programs for the Commodore 8-bit family of computers. This is due because of the INCREDIBLE lack of FTP Archive sites for the Commodore. Server Software: The way the Server is written, it is simply a hook to the Sendmail forwarding mechanism. The entire server software is writen in Bourne Shell scripts. The Server is available from here, by requesting file: send unix-support server How the Server Works: To make use of the server you have to send a Mail message to me, and have a subject line: Subject: Mail-Archive-Request THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! If you don't have that line spelled exactly like that you won't get anything, and I will get a mailbox full of junk messages. Somewhere along the header there should be a line saying: Return-Path: Usually, mail adds this automagically, but if it were not the case, you can specify a return path by puting a line in the body of your message saying: path In the body of your message you put the Mail Archive request. You can put several request in a single message, one request per line. The following request are honored: path Forces M-AR to send the file to the mailing address specified in its argument help [topic] Sends help on the topic. Default is this intro file. contents [volume] Sends the contents of the volume. Defualt will send the list of available volumes AND the contents of the Help volume. index [volume] Sends the directory list of the volume. Default will send the directory for help volume send [volume] [file] Sends the file on the specified volume. Default Volume is help, and default file is contents. Please note that all the request keyboards are in lowercase letters. And the ARE case sensitive. That means, you can't send a message: cOnTeNts help and expect the server to understand you. Submitting files ================ The server allows other users to submit files to the server. Send a request for "help contribution" for more information. NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE Currently the Server software is in beta testing. If you experience any problems, send mail to me. (Just don't put a Subject: Mail-Archive-Server) on it. I will try to figure out what is wrong. Tough, I can't guarantee that the Server will work for ALL systems. Alejandro Liu acliu%skat@usc.edu acliu@skat.usc.edu (Simple .signature, $CHEAP$)