On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Robyn, Duke of Amber wrote:

O.K...
 finally tired of my server screwing me around I thought I'dd use the
archive command to get the last 50 or so posts.... (I figure I could
'filter feed' the spam out the hard way....
now this was the way I did it...and ave yet to see anything (It's been 20
min...)
 addr : fanfic-request@fanfic.com
 Subj:archive
 
ls latest
get latest/50
quit


 any suggestions?

The problem here is that file 50 is not in the "latest" directory. File 50
is probably somewhere in the original directory. The oldest file in the
"latest" directory is probably something like latest/24000. Using the
archive isn't as simple at that, sorry to say. You're going to have to
find out the actual file numbers of the last 50 posts, then ask for them
individually, such as:

get latest/25705
get latest/25706
etc...

I hope this helps.

~Eimii- professional pain magnet

 

 I'm actually going away for the next two days but don't want to miss
whatever stories have gone by in the last 2 or 3...
 bla. :(

                    Neil

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