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The WG94-L contains an archive of files which can be retrieved by e-mail by anybody. To get a list of the files currently available, send the following message:
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You will receive an index like the one below:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 58925 Feb 14 1995 addr0295.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 33431 Feb 14 1995 addr0295.uue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 63478 Jun 7 1995 addr0695.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 33977 Jun 7 1995 addr0695.uue
-rw-rw-rw- 1 majordom majordom 881287 Dec 12 12:52 log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 101706 Feb 3 1995 news0195.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 77314 Feb 3 1995 news0195_wp.uue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 104418 Apr 27 1995 news0295.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 94520 Apr 27 1995 news0295_wp.uue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 236258 Dec 13 11:28 news0395_wp.uue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom majordom 190658 Dec 13 11:28 news0495_wp.uue
The names of the files available are in the far right column of the index. The LOG* files contain a log of the messages distributed, the ADDR* files contain the public addresses of the members, the NEWS* files contain electronic copies of the WG 9.4/COMNET-IT Newsletter. The *.TXT files are plain ASCII text files, *.UUE files need to be uudecoded, *.ZIP files need to be PKUNZIPped, *.EXE files need to be executed to be unpacked.
For instance, if you wish to retrieve the Newsletter no. 4/1995 as a uuencoded WordPerfect 5.1 file, send the following message:
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Message: get wg94-l news0495_wp.uue
You will receive an email message containing the encoded file. Extract (save) the message to a file, e.g. to 'news0495_wp.uue', and decode it with the following Unix command (or equivalent):
uudecode news0495_wp.uue
This will create a file 'news0495.wp' which you can print with WordPerfect 5.1 under MS-DOS, or WordPerfect 5.2 under Windows.
The latest version of this information about the WG94-L can be retrieved by sending the following message:
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