The Umich Atari Archive Help File Welcome to BART, Brode's Archive Retrieval Thang, the University of Michigan's Atari Archive mail server. To use the server, send a message to atari@atari.archive.umich.edu. The subject line is ignored. The body of the message should contain, one per line, any of the following commands. Each of the commands sends its output back to you via e-mail. help This command sends this file. index This command sends the archive's index. The index lists all of the files in the archive with a short description where available. send 0ls-lR.Z This command sends the archive's ls -lR index. This is the raw output, with no descriptions. path mail-address This command tells BART where to send the requested files. BART tries to send messages back to the address it finds in your From: line. If that is invalid, you must use this command to give BART a valid reply address. send directory/filename This command sends files from the archive. Binary files are uuencoded before they are sent. You must issue a send command for each file you want to receive. Use the index to find the directory and exact file name for your request. Here is an example of requesting the arc.ttp program from the Archivers directory: send Archivers/arc.ttp To get the list of new files in the archive: send 0new If you miss parts of a file, rather than re-request the whole thing, you can give BART a comma separated list of the parts you are missing and it will send you those parts. For example: send Languages/gcc.arc aa,ac,af The only way to get a file larger than your quota is to request the file by parts until you have the whole thing. A full part is approximately 30k of data. Note: BART does not accept wildcards such as ? or *. sendb directory/filename This command works just like the send command, except that all files are uuencoded before they are sent. The commands are not case sensitive, but the filenames are. Be careful you are using the correct case before complaining that the server is broken. BART enforces a quota of 1M or 10 files per 24 hour period. Your current quota can be found in the headers of the messages that BART sends you. Your quota is restored, in full, 24 hours after your last message to BART is received. If you are persistent enough, your quota may never be restored. BART does not queue requests that went over quota for later processing, you must re-send them 24 hours later. Quotas are given in Eastern Standard Time (-4 GMT). If you give a valid command (path, help, index, send, sendb) that cannot be processed, you will get an error message back. Otherwise, BART will silently dispose of your request. Submissions are always welcome. Please mail them to boydm@atari.archive.umich.edu Comments, Questions and Complaints about BART go to brode@atari.archive.umich.edu Jon Brode -- brode@atari.archive.umich.edu Supreme Commander of the Umich Atari Posse