Re: Spectrum Internet Suite

[jjklein@clark.net (Joseph Klein Annapolis)]

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.

>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.

>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?

>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.

Geoff Weiss