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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: About FTP mail
- Message-ID: <root.726098134@maui>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <1993Jan1.150011.16594@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> <93Jan3.232019eet.10250-1@utu.fi>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:55:34 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In <93Jan3.232019eet.10250-1@utu.fi> mea@utu.fi (Matti Aarnio) writes:
-
- >In comp.mail.misc W.M.Chung <wmchung@ie.cuhk.hk> wrote:
- >>Hello!
- >>
- >>I have a question about FTP mail. I know that FTP mail can mail
- >>a specific file to a user. If the file is a program, than how
- >>to extract from the mail? As you know, a mail has a mail header
- >>in the front.
-
- > There is no single beast known as "FTP mail".
- > [description of archive mailers deleted]
-
- I think W.M.Chung was asking how to extract programs from mail, rather
- than asking for a rundown of ftpmailers :^)
-
- Most programs are sent/requested as source code (if extremely short) or
- as tar files (this is the normal situation). Since the tars are usually
- compressed in an eight-bit format, one of two formats is typically
- used: btoa or uuencode. With ftpmail@decwrl, you can state which
- format you'd like the file in.
-
- If, like me, you specify uuencoded format, you can use the uuconvert
- program to strip out the mail headers/signatures from the files and
- then automatically uudecode the file. Otherwise, you'll probably have to
- manually strip the stuff out with an editor (like vi).
-
- I highly recommend doing it the uuconvert route.
-
- Another option if the mail messages arrived in order is to use the
- nn newsreader. If you have a set mail maildir line in your ~/.nn/init
- file, you can do a :rmail, highlight all of the articles (that you
- want decoded) then do a :decode to it.
-
- If you don't have the set mail line in your init file, you can specify
- the file in your command line (I think it's nn -f /usr/spool/mail/wmchung).
- Once again, highlight the articles you want decoded and use :decode.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
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