From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 16: 7:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48B837B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:07:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3379643EB2 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:07:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ph1@cogeco.ca) Received: from snoopy (d141-214-59.home.cgocable.net [24.141.214.59]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9849759AA for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:07:41 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: david To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:07:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211271907.07514.ph1@cogeco.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:48, Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv wrote: > Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it w= as > corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar t= o > 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 t= akes > 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 consider= ate! > > I hope all this doesn't result in ftpmail servers getting > stressed....please exercise caution, or we will all lose this amazing > service!! > > Regards, > > Andrew > > In the last episode (Nov 26), Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv 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: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu > 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message