Hello accmailers ... We have had many requests for more information about how to use www4mail to download and join large binary files.
So here is a full worked example: downloading Pegasus Mail. The example assumes you are using the Windows operating system. ==================================================================== 1. DOWNLOADING AN 'UNZIP' PROGRAM First -- do you have an unzip program on your computer? www4mail 'zips' most binary file downloads to make them smaller, so you must have some way of unzipping them to their original format. If you do not have an unzip program, do this now ... Send an email to www4mail`at`szs.net In the body of the email, enter http://www.math.hawaii.edu/lab/197/unzip.zip www4mail will return to you an email with a large attachment named 'unzip.zip'. Save this attachment to a folder on your computer (we suggest you name this folder 'binaries'). Rename the saved attachment from 'unzip.zip' to 'unzip.exe' (because it really is an executable file). Now you have an unzip program. ==================================================================== 2. DOWNLOADING PEGASUS MAIL This is worth doing, because Pegasus Mail is the email client we recommend to people using www4mail and other email-only methods. The size of Pegasus Mail is about 7 Mb. It will arrive in your inbox as multiple emails, each with a large attachment -- so before you do this, please make sure your remote mailbox is empty -- download everything. Send an email to www4mail`at`szs.net In the body of the email, enter ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/pegasus/winpmail/w32-441.exe www4mail will return to you 35 emails, each with a large numbered attachment: w32-441.exe.zip.001 to w32-441.exe.zip.035. When they have all arrived, save all the attachments to your 'binaries' folder. ==================================================================== 3. JOINING THE ATTACHMENTS Your binary download has been split into 35 separate files, so now you must join them again. It is very easy to do. In your 'binaries' folder, create a new text file named 'join.bat'. Enter the following lines in the new file ... copy /b ^ w32-441.exe.zip.001 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.002 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.003 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.004 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.005 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.006 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.007 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.008 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.009 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.010 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.011 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.012 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.013 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.014 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.015 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.016 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.017 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.018 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.019 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.020 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.021 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.022 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.023 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.024 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.025 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.026 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.027 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.028 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.029 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.030 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.031 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.032 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.033 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.034 + ^ w32-441.exe.zip.035 ^ w32-441.exe.zip The caret character ^ at the end of all lines except the last is a continuation character, and must be included. Now, while in the 'binaries' folder, open a command window and enter join It will join the attachments to make a new binary file named 'w32-441.exe.zip'. ==================================================================== 4. UNZIPPING THE ZIP FILE While still in the command window, enter unzip w32-441.exe.zip It will de-compress 'w32-441.exe.zip' to make 'w32-441.exe'. That is your download -- the latest version of Pegasus Mail. ==================================================================== 5. NEXT EXERCISE: DOWNLOADING PEGASUS MAIL DOCUMENTATION The english-language manual is a zipped pdf document. If you have successfully completed steps 1 to 4 above, you should be able to obtain it by accmail methods from ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/pegasus/manuals/WinPMailManual-441.zip ==================================================================== Finally: this worked example is all in english. If anyone has the time to translate it into any other language, it is certain that your fellow subscribers will be grateful. ::: SZS ::: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to accmail@listserv.aol.com To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. WWW: http://emailonly.szs.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
