More instructions on retrieving from the archive

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The archive is very picky with respect to syntax.

To get a recipe you must know two things: 1) the category 2) the name of the recipe. You can re-read Ari's instructions on how to get these. For example, one of the categories is "bread" and in the bread category, one the recipes is named "tomato-bread". To get a copy of that recipe, you must send the following exact command to the archive server: get recipes/breads/tomato-bread This must be exact, with no extraneous spaces and including the slash marks. The message must also have the word "archive" in the subject heading.

You can get a listing of the *CATEGORIES* by sending the command: ls recipes

Note that this will only return a listing of the categories, not the recipe names.

To get a listing of recipes in a specific category, say "breads" send the command:

ls recipes/breads

This will list the recipes. Then to get a recipe you must include both the category name and the recipe name in the following *exact* format:

get recipes/category-name/recipe-name You must fully specify the file in this format, including the slash marks and without extra spaces. You cannot have lines that have other file information such as dxwrx-rx-r or Aug 20 or any such thing.

If you've double-checked your syntax and are sure it is correct, feel free to send me a copy of your request (good idea is to send it to the archive AND cc: artemis@...) and I can look to see what is wrong.

Good luck, I know this can be confusing for folks not familiar with Unix file formating.

From: Michelle Dick <artemis>. Fatfree Digest [Volume 10 Issue 13] Aug. 23, 1994. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@...

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