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?: FTP via e-mail to Purdue, help needed

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From: tlc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:16
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Apparently one can do a pseudo-FTP to the Purdue archives using e-mail. Since I  
don't have FTP capabilities, I would like to do this.

As far as I can get, is getting the help file, the index, and the index next.  
Now I have been trying to get the indexes for the separate next archives. I  
have tried every combination of command I can think of (e.g. index next  
graphics, index next/graphics, index pub/next/graphics, etc. etc.) and always  
get a "file not found" type reply.

Several requests for assistance have been sent to the archive manager over the  
past couple of months, but to no reply. Therefore I am asking, generally, for  
assistance here.

If someone can send me clear instructions on how to get an "index" to the  
contents of the various next archives at Purdue (sonata and/or nova?), and  
while you're at it maybe a note on how to then have specific files sent to me  
(pardon the ignorance, I ask in the event that what seems clearly written in  
the "help" file turns out to be not so obvious), I sure would appreciate it.

Thank You,
Thierry Castro
tlc@cx5.com
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