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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
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Subject: Re: Accessing Archives Through Mail
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Date: 16 Oct 90 17:43:24 GMT
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In article <13584@accuvax.nwu.edu> hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net (Toby
Nixon) writes:

>Since I've recently done the research on how to do this, I thought I'd
>post a brief message on how ANYONE who gets comp.dcom.telecom can
>access the Telecom Archives through MAIL rather than FTP.

Let me also mention (plug, plug) the FTPget script, available at
comp.sources.misc archives everywhere.  This rather short Bourne shell
script, suitable for Unix systems, will allow you to access the FTP
mail server at Princeton from the Unix command line, without having to
compose a mail message.

To retrieve a file from the Telecom Archives, the command would be:

  ftpget lcs.mit.edu -d telecom-archives -t cocot-in-violation-label

And bingo, the message comes back in the overnight email.  The script
as distributed does NOT have the server name in it, so you need to
edit the script (following the instructions) to include the server
name bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu.

Comments about FTPget may be sent to me.


cowan@marob.masa.com			(aka ...!hombre!marob!cowan)
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