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From: ksk@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Ken S. Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: FTPMail
Keywords: BITFTP FTP FTPMAIL FILES WANK
Message-ID: <1991May21.170130.22407@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
Date: 21 May 91 17:01:30 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Lines: 41


Okay Folks, here's a replacement for BITFTP.  It's called FTPMail and the
mailing address is: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com

If you send a letter with only the word "help" in it, the following letter
will be spit back at you.


>>> this help file was last edited on 15-February-1991
>>>
>>> commands are:
	reply <MAILADDR>	set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong
	connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]]  defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous
	ascii			files grabbed are printable ascii
	binary			files grabbed are compressed or tar or both
	compress		compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding
	compact			compress binaries using Huffman encoding
	uuencode		binary files will be mailed in uuencode format
	btoa			binary files will be mailed in btoa format
	ls (or dir) PLACE	short (long) directory listing
	get FILE		get a file and have it mailed to you
	quit			terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
					(use if you have a .signature or
					 are a VMSMAIL user)
>>> notes:
	-> you must give a "connect" command, default host is
	   gatekeeper.dec.com, default user is anonymous, default
	   password is your mail address.
	-> binary files will not be compressed unless 'compress' or 'compact'
	   command is given; use this if at all possible, it helps a lot.
	-> binary files will always be formatted into printable ASCII
	   with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa").
	-> all retrieved files will be split into 60KB chunks and mailed.
	-> VMS/DOS/Mac versions of uudecode, atob, compress and compact
	   are available, ask your LOCAL wizard about them.

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