September 1993
Intermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
Content preview from Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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subject and the single word "help" in the body. The following is an example mail session that should get you the
examples. This command sends you a listing of the files in the selected directory, and the requested example files. The
listing is useful if there's a later version of the examples you're interested in.
% mail ftpmail@online.ora.com
Subject:
reply−to paula@ora.com Where you want files mailed
open
cd /published/oreilly/xbook/motif
dir
mode binary
uuencode
get examples12.tar.Z
quit
A signature at the end of the message is acceptable as long as it appears after "quit."
All retrieved files will be split into 60KB chunks and mailed to you. You then remove the mail headers and
concatenate them into one file, and then uudecode or atob it. Once you've got the desired file, follow the directions
under FTP to extract the files from the archive.
VMS, DOS, and Mac versions of uudecode, atob, uncompress, and tar are available.
1.7.3 BITFTP
BITFTP is a mail server for BITNET users. You send it electronic mail messages requesting files, and it sends you
back the files by electronic mail. BITFTP currently serves only users who send it mail from nodes that are directly on
BITNET, EARN, or NetNorth. BITFTP is a public service of Princeton University. Here's how it works.
To use BITFTP, send mail containing your ftp commands to BITFTP@PUCC. For a complete help file, send HELP as
the message body.
The following is the message body you should send to BITFTP:
FTP ftp.uu.net NETDATA
USER anonymous
PASS ...
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