Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!amdahl!pacbell!sactoh0!mholtz
From: mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: LISTSERV
Summary: Try this script.
Message-ID: <2590@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 90 05:45:51 GMT
References: <18571.25df2695@merrimack.edu> <17997@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
Lines: 34

In article <17997@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, wnbell@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (william n bell) writes:
> Does anyone know how to get simtel20 files from a listserv?

I have used the following script in order to download the files
from Simtel20. It utilizes elm's fastmail command. Oh, and I didn't
write it, and I cannot remember who did. Enjoy.

#-------- BEGIN -----------------
# 'file' is location of a temporary file
file=/tmp/simrequest
# 'me' is my mail address
me=ames!pacbell!sactoh0!${LOGNAME:?}
# 'listserv' is address of list server
listserv=ames!vm1.nodak.edu!listserv
#listserv=ames!vm.ecs.rpi.edu!listserv
# print help if they goofed
if (test "$#" -ne "3")
  then
    echo "USAGE: getsimtel <disk> <directory> <filename>"
    echo
    echo "EXAMPLE: getsimtel pd1 msdos.filedocs simibm.arc" 
    exit
fi
echo "Processing SIMTEL request . . . . please wait a minute."
echo "/PDGET MAIL $1:<$2>$3 ( UUENCODE" > $file
# mail our request, 'fastmail' from ELM product
fastmail -r $me -F $me -s Request $file $listserv
echo "SIMTEL request sent. Please wait a day or so for receipt."
#--------- END --------------------------
-- 
{ames att sun}!pacbell! \                 <-> America OnLine: Mark Holtz
        ucdavis!csusac! -> sactoh0!mholtz <=>       GEnie: M.HOLTZ
           uunet!mmsac! /                 <-> Home Phone: (916) 722-8522
NOTE: If mail does not get through, it probably got SyndEx-ed.