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From: mek%UMass.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: MAIL ACCESS TO SIMTEL20 ARCHIVES
Message-ID: <2992@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 10:17:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 13 10:17:03 1986
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(PLEASE EXCUSE THE ALL-CAPS)

I THINK THAT THE IDEA OF A SERVER GETTING MAIL COMMANDS
AND SENDING FILES IS AN *EXCELLENT* IDEA.  HOWEVER, SINCE
NOT ALL NETWORK USERS ARE USING TOPS-20, I THINK THAT FILES
SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE SENT IN OTHER FORMATS, SUCH AS .hex
FILES. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE COULD BE COMMANDS LIKE:


HEX NULU151.COM       -WOULD SEND NULU151.COM IN HEX FORMAT, TO
                       BE LOAD'ED OR HEXCOM'D.

UUE NULU151.COM       -WOULD SEND NULU151.COM IN A UUENCODED
                       FORMAT.

THERE COULD ALSO BE A DIR COMMAND, WHICH, BY ITSELF, WOULD
SEND A LIST OF THE FILE AREAS AVAILABLE, AND WITH A PARAMETER
OF A FILE AREA WOULD SEND A LIST OF THE FILES IN THAT AREA.
I THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
OF ACCCESS TO THE SIMTEL20 ARCHIVES BY BITNET, JANET, CSNET,
ETC.

MATT KIMMEL,
MEK%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA