The example programs in this book are available electronically in a number of ways: by http, ftp, ftpmail, bitftp, and uucp. The cheapest, fastest, and easiest ways are listed first. If you read from the top down, the first one that works for you is probably the best. If you are directly on the Internet, use a Web browser (like Mosaic), Gopher, or FTP. Use ftpmail if you are not on the Internet but can send and receive electronic mail to Internet sites. Use BITFTP if you send electronic mail via BITNET. Use UUCP if none of the above works.
On the Web, examples may be obtained at this URL: http://ftp.ora.com/MHxmh/
You can always get to the FTP archive, ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/, by pointing your Web browser there. In all cases, you can keep a copy of the files with your browser's "save to file" command.
% ftp ftp.uu.net Connected to ftp.uu.net. 220 FTP server (Version 6.21 Tue Mar 10 22:09:55 EST 1992) ready. Name (ftp.uu.net:nicole): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send domain style e-mail address as password. Password: nicole@ora.com (use your user name and host here) 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd /published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh 250 CWD command successful. ftp> binary (Very important! You must specify binary transfer for compressed files.) 200 Type set to I. ftp> get MHxmh3.tar.Z 200: PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for MHxmh3.tar.Z. 226 Transfer complete. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. %The file is a compressed tar archive. Extract the files from the archive by typing:
% zcat MHxmh3.tar.Z | tar xf -System V systems require the following tar command instead:
% zcat MHxmh3.tar.Z | tar xof -If zcat is not available on your system, use separate uncompress and tar commands.
You send mail to ftpmail@online.oreilly.com. In the message body, give the FTP commands you want to run. The server will run anonymous FTP for you and mail the files back to you. To get a complete help file, send a message with no subject and the single word help in the body. The following is a sample 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 in case there's a later version of the examples you're interested in.
% comp To: ftpmail@online.oreilly.com Cc: Subject: ------ reply-to janet@xyz.com (where you want files mailed) open chdir /published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh dir mode binary uuencode (or btoa if you have it) get MHxmh3.tar.Z quit CTRL-D -------- What now? sendIf you have MIME installed, you can replace the uuencode command with mime. The server will send the file with MIME base64 encoding and split it into several message/partial parts if needed.
All retrieved files will be split into chunks and mailed to you. Unless you use MIME, where the conversion will be automatic, you remove the mail headers and concatenate the bodies into one file, and then uudecode it. Once you've got the desired file, follow the directions under FTP to extract the files from the archive.
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 your Internet email address (not your BITNET address) CD /published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh DIR BINARY GET MHxmh3.tar.Z QUIT
Once you've got the desired file, follow the directions under FTP to extract the files. Since you are probably not on a UNIX system, you may need to get versions of uudecode, uncompress, btoa, and tar for your system. VMS, DOS, and Mac versions are available. The VMS versions are on gatekeeper.dec.com in /archive/pub/VMS.
Questions about BITFTP can be directed to Melinda Varian, MAINT@PUCC on BITNET.
You can get the examples from UUNET whether you have an account or not. If you or your company has an account with UUNET, you will have a system with a direct UUCP connection to UUNET. Find that system, and type:
uucp uunet\!~/published/oreilly/nutshell/MHxmh/MHxmh3.tar.Z yourhost\!~/yourname/The backslashes can be omitted if you use the Bourne shell (sh) instead of csh. The file should appear some time later (up to a day or more) in the directory /usr/spool/uucppublic/yourname. If you don't have an account, contact UUNET at +1-703-204-8000.
It's a good idea to get the file /published/oreilly/nutshell/ls-lR.Z as a short test file containing the filenames and sizes of all the files in the directory.
Once you've got the desired file, follow the directions under FTP to extract the files from the archive.
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This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely-available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.
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