Path: bionet!NIC.FUNET.FI!harper From: harper@NIC.FUNET.FI (Robert Harper) Newsgroups: bionet.software Subject: Mailserv service from GARBO in Finland. Message-ID: <91Jul29.123438eet_dst.57363@nic.funet.fi> Date: 29 Jul 91 10:34:33 GMT Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 243 Since posting info about the Finnish ftp servers quite a few people have asked if there is a BITFTP like service... since Princeton does not supply connections to the nordic servers. Here is a typical question ******************** CLIP ********************** > Hi, folks. > > I have heard about public domain UNIX on the finnish server garbo.uwasa.fi . > Unfortunately, I haven't any chance to use FTP, because BITNET - FTP server > in Princeton doesn't supply connection to Nordic servers. > Isn't anywhere in the world any other FTP server, where I can found > mirror of garbo, or how can I obtain files from Finland, but not using FTP? > Is there anyone who can help me? > > Thanks. And here is the the reply from GARBO. Hopefully this is a useful resource to those users who are on bitnet and have no possibility to use anonymous ftp. ****************** GARBO mailserv instructions *************** garbo.uwasa.fi archives are available for both anonymous ftp and mail server. Here is our mail server help file: Please read the following information: x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x x Welcome to University of Vaasa, Finland x x garbo.uwasa.fi x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x ************************** 1. MAIL SERVER INFORMATION ************************** garbo-request PC PD archive mail server This is the help file for the mail server located at garbo.uwasa.fi This file can be requested by sending a 'send help' message, or a null message, to mailserv@garbo.uwasa.fi with a subject line of 'garbo-request'. (Don't include the quotes ''). It is now possible to get files from our other directories, too. Like unix, mac etc. We have mounted the Mac dir from nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) where Harri keeps his main Mac archives. Just put the subdir in front of your request. --------------------------------------------------------- * TO REPEAT: The Subject-line of the message MUST say * * 'garbo-request'. If it does not, Harri will get the * * mail and I will send you this file the first time, * * and delete your mail if it happens again. * --------------------------------------------------------- The server recognizes six commands. They are: path If you want to use a different mail address to return the requests you must specify it using this command. You should contact your system administrator to get the optimized path especially if you are using UUCP or BANG paths to get your mail delivered to us. Our mail server checks the mail queue every 15 minutes so if you don't get response in a reasonable time you'd better check this one out with a little help from your friends. You can use this command with or without the corner characters. AND: do remember to use your common sense when testing various addresses; because it might be a boomerang try to request a smaller ones because it is not very clever to jam the net with two mega requests which travels (at worst) two times over the Atlantic and still not get to the one who asked it. AND it can make several PostMasters unhappy while it travels. send help sends you this message. send pc/INDEX sends you a list of available PC files with descriptions NOTICE: UPPERCASE IN WORD INDEX. This is now case sensitive! mac/INDEX would send Mac files list Other possibilities: win3/INDEX, unix/INDEX and X11/INDEX send dir/file this sends the file 'file' from the index. Remember to use filepath name if you are requesting a file from a subdirectory. That is if you want a file called fv137.zip from arcutil directory you must use request 'send pc/arcutil/fv137.zip' Another example: 'send unix/sc/sc6.10.tar.Z' And still: 'send mac/appl/melt.sit' The format for the file name when using ANONYMOUS FTP is e.g. /pc/arcutil/fv137.zip This FTP format is used in most of our news announcements. IMPORTANT!!! The format for the MAIL SERVER is shorter: pc/arcutil/fv137.zip In other words omit / from the path when using our mail server. quit As a general rule, it is advisable to exclude your signature from your request to the mail-server or use this 'quit' command. 'quit' is useful if you have something in your .signature that might be interpreted as a server command. So if you wanted to retrieve 'pc/_files.in' from garbo.uwasa.fi you could send mail with 'garbo-request' as the subject-line with the body of the message being the text 'send pc/_files.in'. For example: (using standard Unix-mail; Subject is prompted - don't use it in the message body, it won't work) % mail mailserv@garbo.uwasa.fi Subject: garbo-request send pc/_files.in ^D % How to extract: ----------------- The files are sent using 'mailsplit' that takes care of the uuencoding, splitting and sending. Save all the parts into the same file in the right order and then remove the mail headers from the file and its parts. Run uudecode and you should have the binary (or MacBinary file if requesting Mac stuff) file. --------- This server is based on the KISS package provided by Bill Wells (bill@twwells.com) and Jon Granrose (odin@pilot.njin.net). Many thanks for a fine package. I have included the MailSplit utilization to this package. I like to thank M F Wyle and H. Yamanaka for the wonderful program. It gave this server ability to deliver also binary files. Harri Valkama (hv@garbo.uwasa.fi) ************************************ 2. FTP and GENERAL INFORMATION ************************************ Files you find in this directory and its subdirectories are archived files. They are made by using PKPAK, PKZIP, PAK, LHARC, ZOO and ARJ programs which you find also in /pc/arcers or /pc/pd2 in executable forms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAK251.EXE, PKZ110EU.EXE, ZOO201.EXE, LHA212.EXE, PK361.EXE and ARJ210.EXE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- are self-extracting programs which produce several programs by which these archive files are made. These EXE-files contain also documentation that helps you to use these programs. If you transfer new programs to us, use directories called 'incoming' and preferably use subdirectories like pc/incoming and mac/incoming. If your files are archived by some other program than the normal please transfer also the archiving program in such a form that others can also use your programs. Incoming is unreadable BUT writable. So you are able to 'cd' into that directory and 'put' the files in. And remember to use 'binary' when uploading binary files. See further instructions from file called pc/UPLOAD.INF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! And please drop me (Harri) a mail message for that I can contact ! ! the sender if I have any problems with uploaded files and/or just ! ! to thank him/her. ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See also files in directories /pc/pd2, /pc/ts, /mac, /unix, /X11 See contents listings in files called 'INDEX'. If you have suggestions concerning improvements of this archive site (or problems) please drop me a mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The directories /pc/ts and /pc/pd2 are moderated by Timo Salmi (email : ts@uwasa.fi) University of Vaasa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Directory /unix, /X11 and /vms are moderated by Hannu Hirvonen (email : hh@macavity.uwasa.fi) University of Vaasa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Directory /mac, /unix and /X11 are moderated by Harri Valkama (email : hv@garbo.uwasa.fi) University of Vaasa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find a short description of the programs in these directories in the file INDEX and directory listing in the files called _dir.lst _file.lst ls-lR.Z There are also files called _files.in and _files.out which show you the names of the files that are either new (in) or that have gone (out) since 1st of the very month. For the detailed contents of the files in /pc/ts directory get the file tsarc127.txt (or whatever is the latest version). See 0news-ts file for the latest news about the files in /pc/ts and pc/pd2/0news-pd2 for selected news on all the pc directories. -- == Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ============================ P.O. Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (tel:+358 61 248426 fax:+358 61 248465) Anon ftp garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.37) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) hv@uwasa.fi hv@finfiles.bitnet /s=hv/o=uwasa/prdm=inet/amdm=fumail/c=fi