Re: Spectrum Internet Suite

[Smarter%than%Spam@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

In article <5h26ml$e9d@clarknet.clark.net>, Joseph Klein Annapolis (jjklein@clark.net) wrote:
: In article <5gtnh8$grl$6@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
: Tilghman Lesher <Smarter%than%Spam@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
: >Why not have SIS use the binscii command (the source can be compiled
: >on the Unix machine -- the source is freely available) and store the

: There is no guarantee that binscii will be installed on the host.  SIS is
: written for the masses, not the UNIX savvy.

uuencode file.shk < file.shk > file.shk.uue

: >resulting files in /tmp.  The files could then be FTP'ed to your
: >machine, where an XCMD could automatically decode the file.

: SIS can't do FTP since the GS has no TCP/IP stack.

cat file.shk.uue

: >The use of /tmp would negate the necessity of having to stick to
: >the user's quota.

: Great, use /tmp instead.  Are you a sys admin's worst nightmare?

rm file.shk.uue

: >Of course, if you only wanted the page, you could do it by typing:
: >lynx -dump http://www.someserver.com/path/to/page.html and
: >capturing the output.

: That wouldn't give you the html source nor the mime type for the page.
: SIS uses a far superiour method of getting the web page.

telnet www.site.com <whatever the http port is>

: Geoff Weiss

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