** How does the ftp-by-email work

You send a regular mail to a ftpmail host (see below) and in the body
of the message you put ftp'ish commands, eg:

help

	or

connect x2ftp.oulu.fi
chdir /pub/msdos/programming/gpe
dir
binary
uuencoded
get pcgpe10.zip
quit

And then the ftpmailer logs on to the ftp-site and performs the above  
commands and mails the result back to you.

** what are the basic commands can I try

help				do this first and read the text
open [site[user[password]	connect to site
cd path				change directory
ls [path]			directory listing
dir [path]			directory listing
get file			get a file, can have path in name
size max[ K | M ]		size when file is split before sending,
				the max size is Kilobytes or Megabytes
mode binary			binary mode: archives, binary files
mode ascii			ascii mode: nothing but ascii text
quit				end of ftp-by-email message

** what ftpmail hosts there are (Please use the nearest)

ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au (Australia)
bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu
ftpmail@luth.se (Sweden)
bitftp@dearn (Europe only)
bitftp@vm.gmd.de (Germany)
ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Germany)
ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (France)
ftpmail@ieunet.ie
bitftp@plearn.edu.pl (Poland)
bitftp@plearn (Europe)
ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk (United Kingdom)
ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu