From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 15:52:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFEA37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gbrsmtp2.inet.fremantlemedia.net (gbrsmtp2.inet.fremantlemedia.net [193.128.129.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BDB43EBE for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv) Received: from gbrhub1.pearsontv.com (unverified) by gbrsmtp2.inet.fremantlemedia.net (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:50:22 +0000 Subject: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:48:08 -0800 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on GBRHUB1/GBR/PTV(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 11/27/2002 11:53:16 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 *************************************************************************** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or it's associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail support.it@fremantlemedia.com if you require further assistance. *************************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message