From: soo@cs.arizona.edu (Michael Soo)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: Spatiotemporal database bibliography
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:42:25 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

Greetings, and thanks for the enthusiastic response to the 
spatiotemporal bibliography we've just completed.  The number
of requests for the bibliography has just been overwhelming.
So overwhelming, in fact, that were having a very hard time 
mailing it to all those who've requested it!  

If you would like a copy of the document or the database and do not 
have ftp access, we ask that you first try the ftpmail facility available 
on cs.arizona.edu.  Simply send an e-mail message to ftpmail@cs.arizona.edu 
that contains the ftp commands needed to retrieve the desired files.  The 
subject line of the message is irrelevant.

For example, to retrieve both the postscript bibliography and the 
bibliographic database, the body of the message should contain the
following.

	open
	cd bib
	get spacetime.bib
	get spacetime.ps

The files will be mailed back to you, divided into chunks that can
be glued together with the help of your favorite editor.  The man page
for ftpmail is appended below in case anyone has further questions.
If, for some reason, you are not able to get ftpmail to work, please 
let us know, and we will get the documents to you.

Thanks again for the interest in the bibliography.  We're happy to
be able to provide it to the research community, and we hope 
you find it useful.  

Mike Soo
soo@cs.arizona.edu

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FTPMAIL(L)               LOCAL COMMANDS                FTPMAIL(L)



NAME
     ftpmail - FTP access via electronic mail

SYNOPSIS
     mail ftpmail@cs.arizona.edu

DESCRIPTION
     ftpmail gives any person with email connectivity  access  to
     the   University  of  Arizona  Computer  Science  Department
     anonymous ftp site.  ftpmail takes a script contained in the
     body  of  an email message and follows it to obtain listings
     and transfer files from a remote network site.  The  subject
     line  of  the message is ignored.  Large files will be split
     into manageable chunks, each of which will be mailed to  the
     user.   Binary  files  will  be made suitable for email with
     either uuencode or btoa.

COMMANDS
     Valid commands to the ftpmail server are:

     reply-to email-address
          Who to send the response to.  Defaults to your incoming
          email address.

     help
          Send  this  help  file.   All  other  instructions  are
          ignored.

     open [ site [ user [ pass ] ] ]
          The open command is mandatory.  Only cs.arizona.edu can
          be  accessed from this server, but it must be specified
          as the site to log in as any user other than anonymous.
          User  and  password  can  be  specified  for users with
          accounts    on    cs.arizona.edu.      Defaults     are
          cs.arizona.edu, anonymous, reply-to address.

     cd pathname
          change directory

     ls [ pathname ]
          get short listing  of  pathname  (defaults  to  current
          directory).

     ls -lR [ pathname ]
          long recursive listing of pathname (defaults to current
          directory).

     dir [ pathname ]
          long listing of pathname defaults to current directory.

     get pathname
          get a file and email back to user.



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     compress
          compress files and directory listings using compress(1)
          before emailing back to user.

     btoa | uuencode
          These are mutually exclusive options for  converting  a
          binary file before emailing. Default is uuencode(1).

     force btoa | uuencode
          Force all files or directory  listings  to  be  encoded
          before sending back.  There is no default.

     mode ascii | binary
          Set the mode selected for the get command.  Defaults to
          binary.

     quit
          End of input - ignore any following lines.

EXAMPLES
     Connect to cs.arizona.edu and send back a  long  listing  of
     the top level of the ftp directory.
          open
          dir
          quit

     Connect to cs.arizona.edu and send back the files tachie.lab and
     nikkei.ai from the japan/kahaner.reports directory to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk
          reply-to lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk
          open
          cd japan/kahaner.reports
          get tachie.lab
          get nikkei.ai
          quit

     Connect to cs.arizona.edu, send back the file TR91-14.ps.Z in the
     reports/1991 directory.  As this is a binary file it has to be transferred
     in binary mode.  Because it is binary it will automatically
     be uuencoded (the default binary encoder).  Then change to ../../icon
     and mail back a compressed directory listing.  Although compressing ls
     output makes it binary, which then has to be encoded, it still ends up
     smaller than the original.
          open
          cd reports/1991
          get TR91-14.ps.Z
          cd ../../icon
          compress
          ls -ltra
          quit






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SEE ALSO
     ftp(1C), ls(1V),

BUGS
     Whatever are inherent in mail, perl (ftpmail is  written  in
     perl) and ftp, and probably others.
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