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- From: adainfo@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Michele L. Kee (AdaIC))
- Subject: New service on AJPO host
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.160836.19134@sei.cmu.edu>
- Keywords: AdaIC, AJPO host, mail-server
- Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
- Organization: Ada Information Clearinghouse
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:08:36 EST
- Lines: 140
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-
- For those of you without FTP access to download files, the AJPO host,
- ajpo.sei.cmu.edu, will provide mail-server capabilities on an
- experimental basis. If you know the name and directory of the file
- you can have the AJPO host e-mail it to you directly with
- "file-request". Just send e-mail to "ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu" and
- have the subject line say "file-request <filename>" (/public is the
- root directory). So for the filename, "adopthbk.txt.Z", under the
- "/public/ada-adoption-hbk" directory, you would have the subject line
- read:
-
- Subject: file-request ada-adoption-hbk/adopthbk.txt.Z
-
- [There is no need for any text in the body of your message.]
-
- If you don't know the filename, there are services provided by this
- automatic mail server to help you: services, help, info, man, and
- directory. To request a service, send e-mail to
- "ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu" and place its name in the Subject line of
- the mail message, followed by any needed parameters. The mail server
- will respond to your request with either the information you requested
- or an error message.
-
- The following are common examples on how to request services from the
- AJPO host mail server:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1) To get a short explanation on available services --
-
- To: ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
- Subject: help
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 2) To get "man" pages of a particular service, such as "directory" --
-
- To: ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
- Subject: man directory
-
- This service takes as a parameter the name of a service, and returns
- a manual page on that service.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 3) To get a "directory" listing of the AJPO anonymous ftp area (/public) --
-
- To: ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
- Subject: directory
-
- The "directory" service takes as an optional parameter a file or
- directory name, and returns the results of an "ls -l" on that
- parameter. For example, to get a listing of the
- /public/ada9x/ada9x.reports directory you would submit a message with
- the Subject of:
-
- Subject: directory ada9x/ada9x.reports
-
- The filename pattern may include the "*" wildcard. For example, to
- get a listing of the /public directories beginning with "p" you would
- submit a message with the Subject of:
-
- Subject: directory p*
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 4) Use "file-request" to get /adastyle/style-t.hlp file --
-
- To: ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
- Subject: file-request adastyle/style-t.hlp
-
- The "file-request" service takes as an optional parameter a filename,
- and will return the contents of the file. (With no filename, you will
- get the /public/README file.) Text files are returned verbatim, while
- binary files are encoded via the Unix "uuencode" command. Large files
- (greater than 1000 lines long) will be split into multiple mail
- messages.
-
- The filename pattern may include the "*" wildcard. For example, to
- get the contents of all files in the /public/ada-info directory ending
- in "Jan93" you would submit a message with the Subject of:
-
- Subject: file-request ada-info/*Jan93
-
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Below is a sample response to a "help" request.
-
-
- From: FTP Mail Server <ftpmail@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
- Message-Id: <9301141628.AA26473@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
- To: adainfo@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
- Subject: Re: help
- In-Reply-To: <9301141628.AA26462@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
-
-
- You have sent electronic mail to the Ada Joint Programs Office automatic
- mail server. This server is based on the ServiceMail(tm) Tookit from
- Enterprise Integration Technologies.
-
- In general, you may request a service by placing its name in the Subject
- line of a mail message, followed by any needed parameters. The mail server
- will respond to your request with either the information you requested or an
- error message.
-
- Here is a brief description of the available services:
-
- services: This service returns a list of the available services.
-
- Re: This service discards all messages with "Re:" in the subject
- line. This is to prevent mail loops.
-
- help: This service returns this help message.
-
- info: This service returns this help message.
-
- man: This service takes as a parameter the name of a service, and
- returns a manual page on that service.
-
- directory: This service takes as an optional parameter a file or
- directory name, and returns the results of an "ls -l" on
- that parameter. The root of the file structure is the
- AJPO anonymous FTP area.
-
- file-request: This service takes as an optional parameter a file name,
- and will return the contents of the file. The root of the
- file structure is the AJPO anonymous FTP area. Text files
- are returned verbatim, while binary files are encoded via
- the Unix "uuencode" command. Large files (greater than
- 1000 lines long) will be split into multiple mail messages.
-
- try 'man <service>' to get more information on a particular service.
- Please report bugs and other problems to ftpmail-request@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
- --
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