Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:48:08 -0800 From: Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) Message-ID: <OF6A965468.D0D3DDD4-ON80256C7E.00829377@pearsontv.com>
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Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was
corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to
when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g.
# man sh > ~/sh.txt
Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes
place?
Also, if anyone else was going to send me a man page, please see Dan
Nelson's recent post (reproduced below) - and thanks for being considerate!
I hope all this doesn't result in ftpmail servers getting
stressed....please exercise caution, or we will all lose this amazing
service!!
Regards,
Andrew
In the last episode (Nov 26), Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv said:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx
> in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the
> net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by
> subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me
> that I might be able to pull some FAQ's and other stuff from mit.edu
> or some other general repository of information. I thought there
> might be a way to do this
Try this. Send an email To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
Enter only this line in the BODY of the message:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
That document will show you how to FTP, read Usenet news, browse the
web, access IMDB, and yes, download FAQs :) via email.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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