From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 11:50:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9008116A402 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:50:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5038C13C4AE for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:50:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HUiHF-00032b-QA for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:49:50 +0100 Received: from ip68-98-196-188.mc.at.cox.net ([68.98.196.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:49:49 +0100 Received: from jvk-list by ip68-98-196-188.mc.at.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:49:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Joe Kraft Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:50:47 -0400 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-98-196-188.mc.at.cox.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: CTM update from mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:50:03 -0000 I remember using uuencode and shar to send files through e-mail many years ago when BITNET was the "thing" at school. This looks somewhat similar, but I can't figure out how to put the parts together again. Partial solutions or guesses will be greatfully accepted at this point, they may provide the nudge to get me moving forward on this again. Thanks, Joe. Joe Kraft wrote: > I'm preparing to take a computer on the road with me where I won't have > direct access to the internet, but will be able to receive e-mail on a > different computer through a webmail interface. I intend to keep up to > date using CTM, and have looked through the handbook but there seems to > be an important part missing. > > I have downloaded the baseline and a few updates through FTP and when I > have the files (cvs-cur.13214.gz for example) the updating works fine. > > I'm trying to figure out how to use updates received in the mail. The > updates are split into multiple parts and CTM doesn't seem to process > them directly. I can't figure out how to reconstruct the original > cvs-cur.*.gz file from the parts. > > Could someone point me in the right direction? The handbook mentions > the ctm-users list, but I've looked through the posts since 2003 and > there's been very little in the last few years except spam. > > Joe Kraft. >