## NON-STANDARD FTP FEATURES

This FTPSERVER has some special features which may help on grabbing files from here:

    	<filename>.Z	Compress designated file while
    			fetching from this system. (Using BSD compress)
    	<filename>.gz	Compress designated file while
    			fetching from this system. (Using GNU-Zip)
    	<dirname>.tar	Make a TAR (using GNU tar-1.11.2) of dir.
    	<filename>.tar	Make a TAR (- " -) of file.
    	<dirname>.tar.Z Make a compressed tar of dir.
    	<dirname>.tar.gz GNU-Ziped variant of above
    	<filename>.tar.Z Make a compressed tar of file.
                            (Why to tar a single file? To get its date & time
                             information too...)
    	<filename>.tar.gz GNU-Ziped variant of above
    	<filename>+".Z"	How to say...  There exists file:  <filename>.Z,
    			you ask it to be UNCOMPRESSED for FTP transfer...
    			(For all of you who can't uncompress a'la BSD UNIX.)
    	<filename>+".gz"  Same as above, but with GNU-UnZip.

    	Note:	It isn't very useful to compress .arc, .zoo, .gif, .Z or
    		.gz files.  Usually they just expand when compressed :-(
    		(Why?  They all use similar compression schemes.)

    	Note2:  This ftp server won't perform .tar or .tar.Z transfer
                    (mentioned above) for top level directories.
    		This is to avoid accidental loading of whole archives over
    		the network to your disk.   Several gigabytes of .tar isn't
    		very easy to handle.
                    So .tar and/or .tar.Z will only work in some subdirectories.
                    Of course, this restriction doesn't apply on regular files.

    	Note3:	Unless you REALLY can't uncompress files, please only then do
    		retrieve files in their uncompressed form! (Leaving out the
    		".Z"/".z"/".gz"  from true file path.)
    		There are workable 16-bit UNcompress programs available for
    		all machines which have at least 640k memory!
    		Consider using GNU-Zip, which can decompress BSD compress (.Z),
    		SysV pack (.z), and  gzip  (.gz) files.  Versions for multiple
    		platforms are available, including UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, ...

Special command `SITE FIND regexpr' (your average UNIX ftp client accepts it like this: `quote site find gcc960') to run regexpr matching against files in archive. It scans special file with ordinary egrep -program.

If you have a special FTP client, which sends PORT command before sending SITE FIND command, you can get search result into a file. Exact features of this command will change, quite probably it will be a frontend to ARCHIE some day. (ftp.funet.fi:/pub/local/src/net2+mea-ftp.tar.gz)