From: root@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor) Subject: Re: ftp access via email? Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:42:07 GMT
In article <1993Mar29.144100.20905@odin.diku.dk> jablo@diku.dk (Jacob Martin Bohn Lorensen) writes:
>Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ in some newsgroup.
>
>Our computer department has just taken down the old computer, that
>was available to first to third year students for internet access.
>There are scaring rumours that it will not be replaced due to
>``the net not being used for computer-science related topics'' :-o
>
>Thus I have now read more than a weeks postings (email and news) of
>wonderful things like new kernal patches, new device drivers & patches
>etc. etc which I want to get hold of, primarily Linux related. It has
>occurred to me, that it must be possible somehow to get this
>transferred by email. If there is a site with Linux specific binaries,
>sources and patches, and if any of you out here in comp.os.linux knows
>about it, please tell me.
Well, ftp-mail@decwrl.dec.com will work for you. Mail a message to
ftp-mail@decwrl.dec.com, and in the body of the message, say nifty things
like:
reply jablo@diku.dk
connect sunsite.unc.edu
chdir /pub/Linux/Incoming
dir
quit
you can also use binary, compress, compact, uuencode, etc. to process the
files before they get to you. You will be mailed a notice of receipt, the
files, and a transcript of the session.
There is an article in the April 1993 UnixWorld, but I am unsure of the
availability of such in Denmark.
>Greetings,
>Jacob Lorensen.
>--
>No signature yet !
Get one, dammit!
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