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Subject: Getting hold of GAMEBYTES4
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:05:21 +0000







         I posted a request a few days ago, for someone to send me a copy 
         of Gamebytes 4. Thanks to everyone who offered to email me a copy. 
         
         Thanks also to all those people who let me into the secret that I 
         can use a 'mail server' to effectively give me ftp access.
         
         Just in case there are others like me who didn't know that they 
         could use this method of gaining ftp access, here's how its done:
         
         (Most of this text is cut and pasted from the replies I received - 
         I hope no-one minds)
         
         Basically, you send commands to a remote machine and it does the
         ftp for you and it sends you the results via e-mail.
         
         The address is ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.
         
         Here's the help file:
         
         >>> this help file was last edited on 08-August-1991
         >>> (to get this file send a message to above address
         >>>  with the single word help as the message body)
         >>> commands are:
         
          reply <MAILADDR> set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong
          connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]]  defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, 
         anonymous
          ascii   files grabbed are printable ascii
          binary   files grabbed are compressed or tar or both
          chdir PLACE  "get" and "ls" commands are relative to PLACE
              (only one CHDIR per ftpmail session)
          compress  compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding
          compact   compress binaries using Huffman encoding
          uuencode  binary files will be mailed in uuencode format
          btoa   binary files will be mailed in btoa format
          ls (or dir) PLACE short (long) directory listing
          get FILE  get a file and have it mailed to you
          quit   terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
              (use if you have a .signature or
               are a VMSMAIL user)
         
         >>> examples:
         
         (to get text version of GAMEBYTES magazine - issue 4)
         
         connect wuarchive.wustl.edu
         chdir /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
         binary
         uuencode
         get gb04-txt.zip
         quit
         
         
         (to get graphics version of GAMEBYTES magazine - issue 4)
         
         connect wuarchive.wustl.edu
         chdir /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
         binary
         uuencode
         get gb04-gra.zip
         quit
         
         
         
         What you get back is about 3 mail items (for the text version of 
         Gamebytes) or 30 odd items (for the graphics version).
         
         then you have to:
         
         1) Join them together using a mail unsplitter.
         
         ->   several mail unsplitters are hiding on gatekeeper.dec.com in
              /pub/mail/ua/misc/unsplit.  includes one in c, one in perl,
              and one in VMS DCL.
              
         2) uudecode the resulting file.
         
         ->   I don't know where you can get uudecode, but I don't think 
              its too difficult.
              
         3) then unzip the file using pkunzip.
         
         ->   most people should have this somewhere.
         
         4) then just run GAMEBYTES.EXE
         
         Apologies if you all knew this already, or if any of this is wrong 
         - if it is please let me know.
         
         
                   Cheers,
         
                   Ian   (i.j.rispin@man0507.wins.icl.co.uk)
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