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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: What is simtel20?
Keywords: simtel20, shell scripts
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Date: 11 Sep 90 17:16:28 GMT
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In article <2480@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil>, nol2321@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil
(Jim Dunn) writes:
Jim> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim> Greetings NetWorldling.  Apparently you have asked about ftp, or
Jim> simtel or some other such topic.  And because of that I'm sending
Jim> you a little file on how to order files from simtel using the
Jim> "list-server", OK?  :)
Jim> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim> The first thing you need to do is to prepare an e-mail addressed
Jim> to:
Jim> 	listserv@vm1.nodak.edu
Jim> The subject of the message could be anything, but I usually use:
Jim> 	Subj: Command
Jim> The body of the message should look something like this:
Jim> 	/PDGET MAIL PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>SIMIBM.ARC UUENCODE

Here are a couple of short scripts that make it easy to do these from
the shell prompt. I think the examples make the programs
self-explanatory, but getsimtel requests a file and dirsimtel requests
a directory listing from the listserv. I can't remember the original
authors...

---Getsimtel.sh---
#! /bin/sh
file=$HOME/.simrequest
rm $file
if [ $# -ne 3 ]
then
	echo
	echo "usage: getsimtel <disk> <directory> <filename>"
	echo
	echo "Example: getsimtel pd1 msdos.filutil simibm.arc" 
	exit
fi
echo "/PDGET MAIL $1:<$2>$3 (UUENCODE" > $file
mailx listserv@vm1.nodak.edu < $file

---Dirsimtel.sh---
#! /bin/sh
file=$HOME/.simrequest
rm $file
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
	echo
	echo "usage: dirsimtel <disk> <directory>"
	echo 
	echo "Example: dirsimtel pd1 msdos.filutil" 
	exit
fi
echo "/PDDIR $1:<$2>*.* 999" > $file
mailx listserv@vm1.nodak.edu < $file