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From: koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Archive-server
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Date: 7 Jan 90 18:35:18 GMT
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In article <1990Jan5.174330.6751@cs.dal.ca> bill@biomel.UUCP writes:
>I noticed that the address has changed to archive-server@panarthea.sun.com
>(no more .ebay.), although I haven't seen a posting to that effect.

Are you sure?  I just tried sending test messages from two different sites,
and panarthea.ebay.sun.com worked in both instances.  An alternate address
for the server is archive_serv1@ebay.sun.com (I didn't set that up -- the
local mail people just want to have addresses for everything on the mail
gateway machine.)

>I have a baffling problem with it -- I can get it to send help and
>indices, but it never sends the binaries I request.  I've tried to keep
>the size of the requests small.  Any ideas?

Are you sure your requests are in the proper form?  A very common mistake
is to say

send binaries/volume1/foobar

instead of

send binaries/volume1 foobar

The archive server chokes on the first form.  The form of requests is
"send directoryname file [file file file ...]."

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