There are 10 messages totalling 419 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. <No subject given> (2)
2. POSTSCRIPT&WWW4 (2)
3. Problems with ACCMail digest. (2)
4. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
5. How to figure out real file name?
6. Maching domain!
7. PDF file
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:24:01 -0400
From: Mark F McClaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <No subject given>
I recieved this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 15 May 1999 22:32:12 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>You have requested 0 documents
>in the past 14 days, so you have reached
>your quota for this period. You cannot
>request any more for 15 days.
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>Sorry for the annoyance,
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>Automatically yours,
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>You have requested 0 documents
>in the past 14 days, so you have reached
>your quota for this period. You cannot
>request any more for 15 days.
>Sorry for the annoyance,
>Automatically yours,
>The DMU Engineering Agora Team, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I waited another 15 days, then sent more file requests to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
still receiving this message from them.
anyone using this server' know what's going on with them?
Mark
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:07:22 -0400
From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POSTSCRIPT&WWW4
I was testing the GETPS option from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I got
a file with extension html. Opening the file with ie4 showed a format that I
dont understand. No trace of he embedded images I know that page has.
Was I suposed to received a .PS or a :HTNL file?
By the way where can I download, using www4, a small but powerful PS viewer?
TIA
Roberto Safora
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:46:48 EDT
From: William C Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with ACCMail digest.
Hello everybody,
I and others at Juno.com have been having problems receiving
the ACCMail digest. It is currently being 'looked-into'. It may have to
do with the size of the digest, (can somebody check the *total* size,
including headers, of a couple of recent digests).
What I am looking for is someone who is currently getting
the digest and would be willing to contact me OFF-LIST
regarding mailing me back digests. *Don't* send them to me with out
contacting me first. Also is there anyone on this list with 'basic' Juno
that is getting the digest with no problems? Also does anyone have any
ideas what maybe the problem?
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William Andrews
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 06:01:47 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Sat 15 May 1999, posted Sun, 16 May 1999 05:00:39
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 19:54:15 +0600
From: K Sethu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to figure out real file name?
At 09:06:35 -0700, Fri, 14 May 1999, Gerald E. Boyd wrote :
>The wwwmail servers return an attachment in the old DOS 8.3 format.
>That is, an 8 character filename followed by a 3 character extension.
>Hence, long URL requests are truncated to a 8.3 format.
However Gerry, it appears www4mail servers do NOT truncate or alter long
filenames for some types of URLs. Secondly, for even those files which do
not get
truncated at all by www4mail servers, the e-mail agent used to retrieve them
should be types which handle longer file names - in case of Windows 95/98
this would mean the e-mail software be 32 bit application, AFAIK!
Let me show these two points by example :
Today via <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I fetched 2 URLs. My requests were :
TSOURCE http://boole.stanford.edu/nerdsheaven.html
TSOURCE http://boole.stanford.edu/
I retrieved the two corresponding replies from the idrc www4mail server,
first with my Eudora Pro ver 3.0 (32) (at which time I kept the option to
leave the copies in server after retrieval ); and then I used my older
Eudora Light ver 1.5.4(16) to retrieve again both replies. I used two
different
Attachment folders one for those coming via my Eudora Pro and the other
for, coming via Eudora Light. Eudora Pro 3.0 (32) is a 32 bit application
whereas Eudora Light 1.5.4(16) is a 16 bit application.
For each of the above 4 retrievals, the "Details for Current Page URL :"
and
"Attachment Converted : " notices in the reply cover messages are as in the
following :
1) For file "nerdsheaven.html" and retrieval by Eudora Pro 3.0 (32):
>Details for Current Page
>------------------------
>URL : http://boole.stanford.edu/nerdsheaven.html
......
>Attachment Converted: "d:\EUDORA PRO3\Attach\nerdsheaven.htm
******************************************
2) For file "nerdsheaven.html" and retrieval by Eudora Light 1.5.4 (16):
>Details for Current Page
>------------------------
>URL : http://boole.stanford.edu/nerdsheaven.html
.......
>Attachment Converted: D:\ATTACH2\nerdshea.htm
******************************************
3) For site "http://boole.stanford.edu/" and retrieval by Eudora Pro 3.0 (32):
>Details for Current Page
>------------------------
>URL : http://boole.stanford.edu
.......
>Attachment Converted: "d:\EUDORA PRO3\Attach\ford_edu.htm"
******************************************
4) For site "http://boole.stanford.edu/" and retrieval by Eudora Light
1.5.4 (16):
>Details for Current Page
>------------------------
>URL : http://boole.stanford.edu
........
>Attachment Converted: D:\ATTACH2\ford_edu.html
******************************************
So by comparing cases 1) and 2) above we see that when a file such as
this "http://boole.stanford.edu/nerdsheaven.html" is sent to us, the www4mail
server does not truncate the file name. But if the retrieving e-mail program
cannot handle long file names like the 16 bit application Eudora Light here,
then that retriever truncates the file name - here it uses the FIRST 8
characters : "nerdshea"
Now comparing 3) and 4) as well as with first two, we see that the requested
URL : "http://boole.stanford.edu" page is named by the www4mail server
ITSELF with a file name which is LAST 8 characters of the URL with the
in-between period (.) replaced with an underscore (_)
I checked my past retrievals from the other two www4mail servers and I could
confirm that above observations to be true with the
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
also. I have not used my Eudora Pro with the third one :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yet, (I started using Eudora Pro only a fortnight
ago)
so I cannot confirm if these observations are true for it.
- but my guess is that they ought to be.
I hope my above example shows that DOS 8.3 format is not enforced
by the www4mail servers on every long file named URLs. Hope someone
will explain which types of URLs get DOS 8.3 format names and which
types of files are let through with long filenames by the www4mail servers.
BTW Gerry, this is my first posting to the list by way of my Eudora Pro.
I have kept "Quoted Printable" icon off. If any other MIME related settings
that I have not discovered in this "new-to-me" e-mailer is giving problems
in posting to the list, advise me please.
Sethu.
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 08:33:45 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <No subject given>
At 07:24 PM 5/15/99 -0400, Mark F McClaine wrote the following:
>I recieved this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I reported that this agora was now a local server only to the ACCMAIL
list on 28Apr99
I also updated my servers listing on the same day.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 08:37:54 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with ACCMail digest.
At 10:46 PM 5/15/99 EDT, William C Andrews wrote the following:
>I and others at Juno.com have been having problems receiving
>the ACCMail digest. It is currently being 'looked-into'. It may have to
>do with the size of the digest, (can somebody check the *total* size,
>including headers, of a couple of recent digests).
It has been very large for the last 2 weeks. This might be the problem
for Juno users in that it's larger than 64K.
The logs are even getting quite large...
[...]
ACCMAIL LOG9904B LOG OWN 79,305 1999-04-14 14:19:48
ACCMAIL LOG9904C LOG OWN 178,271 1999-04-21 17:16:24
ACCMAIL LOG9904D LOG OWN 243,639 1999-04-28 15:52:37
ACCMAIL LOG9904E LOG OWN 63,091 1999-04-30 14:30:09
ACCMAIL LOG9905A LOG OWN 111,992 1999-05-07 16:26:54
ACCMAIL LOG9905B LOG OWN 249,817 1999-05-14 12:30:47
[...]
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 08:50:43 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: POSTSCRIPT&WWW4
At 03:07 PM 5/14/99 -0400, Roberto Safora wrote the following:
>By the way where can I download, using www4, a small but powerful PS
viewer?
Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:
An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to
convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on
displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript
language capability built in;
An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same
abilities;
The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some
limitations) and vice versa; and
A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the
graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the
PostScript language.
The primary FTP site for Ghostscript is ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost
You will need to obtain the following sources:
ghostscript-5.50.tar.gz, Ghostscript sources, 2826251 bytes
jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz, JPEG library sources, 613261 bytes
libpng-1.0.2.tar.gz, LIBPNG library sources, 225386 bytes
zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz, ZLIB library sources, 168463 bytes
and also the following fonts:
ghostscript-fonts-std-5.50.tar.gz, Ghostscript standard fonts,
1444863 bytes
More info can be seen on this web page:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get550.html
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:47:27 +0200
From: Thomas Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maching domain!
On 15 May 1999 23:46:30 Irfan Khan wrote:
>> Few months ago I found a server on the net that let me search domain
>> name servers wich contains the matching word
> here is a non-accmail answer (i.e. requires on-line web access):
> http://www.netcraft.com/cgi-bin/Survey/hosts?host=whatever
http://www.presenceweb.com/cgi-bin/cgimoteur.ang?\
nbhits=10&objet=XXX&extension=mondiale
works via mail request.
objet=wireworm
http://www.wireworm.fr
http://www.wireworm.com
http://www.wireroom.com
objet=helli
http://www.helli.fr
http://www.helli.de
http://www.el3i.com
http://www.eli.cz
and 100 more
Thomas
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 12:02:42 +0800
From: xiong3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PDF file
How to convert a word97 document to PDF file?
Are there any softwares can edit PDF document?
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