FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes place? Also, if anyone else was going to send me a man page, please see Dan Nelson's recent post (reproduced below) - and thanks for being considerate! I hope all this doesn't result in ftpmail servers getting stressedplease exercise caution, or we will all lose this amazing service!! Regards, Andrew In the last episode (Nov 26), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi everybody, I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me that I might be able to pull some FAQ's and other stuff from mit.edu or some other general repository of information. I thought there might be a way to do this Try this. Send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter only this line in the BODY of the message: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email That document will show you how to FTP, read Usenet news, browse the web, access IMDB, and yes, download FAQs :) via email. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or it's associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you require further assistance. *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes place? Yup, I forgot some of the *roff incantations that were necessary, and then I saw Dan Nelson's vastly more useful post. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Try more sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes place? Also, if anyone else was going to send me a man page, please see Dan Nelson's recent post (reproduced below) - and thanks for being considerate! I hope all this doesn't result in ftpmail servers getting stressedplease exercise caution, or we will all lose this amazing service!! Regards, Andrew In the last episode (Nov 26), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi everybody, I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me that I might be able to pull some FAQ's and other stuff from mit.edu or some other general repository of information. I thought there might be a way to do this Try this. Send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter only this line in the BODY of the message: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email That document will show you how to FTP, read Usenet news, browse the web, access IMDB, and yes, download FAQs :) via email. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Try more sh.txt Ummm, r u [sh]ure? #man sh more sh.man.txt Formatting page, please wait...Done. No manual entry for sh.man.txt OK, I'm a dumb shell scripter anyway, try this: #man sh more ~./sh.man.txt Unknown user: .. Hmmm, maybe csh is as brain dead as they say: #sh $ man sh more sh.txt No manual entry for sh.txt And, just to make sure I didn't misunderstand your post: $more sh.txt sh.txt: No such file or directory Maybe Paul Beard would send us his groff-troff magic, and end my curiosity here Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:07, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Try more sh.txt Ummm, r u [sh]ure? #man sh more sh.man.txt Formatting page, please wait...Done. No manual entry for sh.man.txt No, I am saying if you pipe the output of man sh to a file you will need to use more or less to view it because of the bold formatting, etc. Right? OK, I'm a dumb shell scripter anyway, try this: #man sh more ~./sh.man.txt Unknown user: .. Hmmm, maybe csh is as brain dead as they say: #sh $ man sh more sh.txt No manual entry for sh.txt And, just to make sure I didn't misunderstand your post: $more sh.txt sh.txt: No such file or directory Maybe Paul Beard would send us his groff-troff magic, and end my curiosity here Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
david wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:07, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Try more sh.txt Ummm, r u [sh]ure? #man sh more sh.man.txt Formatting page, please wait...Done. No manual entry for sh.man.txt No, I am saying if you pipe the output of man sh to a file you will need to use more or less to view it because of the bold formatting, etc. Right? So, feed it through col. If you do man man | col -b You don't have the bold stuff. Kent OK, I'm a dumb shell scripter anyway, try this: #man sh more ~./sh.man.txt Unknown user: .. Hmmm, maybe csh is as brain dead as they say: #sh $ man sh more sh.txt No manual entry for sh.txt And, just to make sure I didn't misunderstand your post: $more sh.txt sh.txt: No such file or directory Maybe Paul Beard would send us his groff-troff magic, and end my curiosity here -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
[snip] So, feed it through col. If you do man man | col -b You don't have the bold stuff. Kent Ahh neat, thanks for sharing that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
