From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 03:13:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA01217 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 03:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA01206 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 03:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v9qDS-0008s4C; Sun, 6 Oct 96 03:13 PDT Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0v9qDP-000QoNC; Sun, 6 Oct 96 11:13 MET From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA26723; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:26:42 +0200 Message-Id: <199610060926.LAA26723@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Sending FreeBSD via e-mail To: flaq@synwork.com (SysAdmin) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:26:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: from "SysAdmin" at Oct 5, 96 08:38:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk SysAdmin writes: > > Why would your mail get to you any faster than installing via ftp? Just > start the install and go to bed one night. It's not that simple. ftp is not as robust as mail: it tends to time out on poor transpacific lines. I've tried, and it's a pain, so I can understand Arif. > On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Watung Arif B. wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I wanna install FreeBSD at my PC. But right know my internet connection >> is so slow to use the FTP site (it will take about 13 hours for me to >> just downloading the entire bin directory). >> >> Could you send me the FreeBSD programs via email? >> >> I think I need the entire content of these following directory: >> 1. bin >> 2. compat1x & 2x >> 3. doc >> 4. floppy >> 5. info, and >> 6. manpages There is a feature called ftpmail that used to be available. It's described in Krol's "The Complete Internet" (O'Reilly) in the chapter on Mail (but there's no reference in the index, at least not in my old edition). Try sending mail to ftpmail1@decwrl.dec.com, and send 'help' as the message text. Greg