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From: stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Bitnet FTP server via MAIL for any ftp-able site?? True??
Message-ID: <3208@phred.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 90 23:38:08 GMT
References: <14135@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach)
Organization: <14135@shlump.nac.dec.com>o
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...In article <14965@imagen.UUCP>, glenn@imagen.UUCP (Glenn Boozer) writes...
...
...>I just found out that there is a [at least one] Bitnet site that has a
...>mail server that will ftp files from any ftp-able site, via a mailed
...>batch file, and mail them back to the originator.
...


Try sending a message to ...
To: <path>!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!bitftp
FTP <site> UUDECODE
USER  anonymous
BINARY
CD <directory>
GET <file>
It works for me.

Enjoy.

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