Re: File retrieval (was: EuPgms by mail)
At 03:13 PM 6/7/98 +0700, Andy Kurnia wrote:
>Well, I have adapted my Play By e-Mail Server
>[it is not in Euphoria of course, there has never been a BSD/OS version
] to also include a lynxmail service...
*** This is terrific! Very fast, too. Thanks, Andy.
> To: pbmserv at demo.bsdi.com
> Subject: get -uu http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/whatever.zip
> Subject: get -t ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/mountains
*** note: slight change in url above. This is correct ^^^
>Syntax: get [-t] [-uu] URL ...
> -t textified, URLs preserved (else HTML source)
> -uu uuencode (else not)
> URL chars allowed: %&+-./0-9:=?@A-Z_a-z~
>
>To get ftp directory listing, put the directory in the URL.
>(You can try it both ways, one using -t and the other not,
>to get the idea how directory
>listings are provided either way.)
>
>To access non-anonymous servers use this syntax:
>ftp://user:password at ftp.xyz.com/directory/file
>
>If you need a character that is not allowed, use %XX (XX is >hexadecimal),
>e.g. %6F is 'o' (but 'o' is supported!). So to include a REAL >percent-sign
'%', use %25. An at-sign '@' is %40.
>A colon is %3A... I think. Etc.
>
>To get a binary file (e.g. a zipfile) you MUST use -uu.
>Failure to do so will put the binary right in the reply mail,
>and will cause it to be unusable.
>(No base64 support, at least not yet.)
>
>The file will NOT be split. If you have problems receiving
>big mails, you should ask the ftpadmin/webmaster to split
>the file into some smaller pieces.
>Please note that -uu adds ca. 35% to 40% of the file size!
>
>Well, I would like to advertise here... 
>
> To: pbmserv at demo.bsdi.com
> Subject: help
>
>will give you a helpfile on using my Play By e-Mail Server. It is FREE!
>
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