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- Path: uunet!wyse!mikew
- From: mikew@wyse.wyse.com (Mike Wexler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.x
- Subject: v01INF3: comp.sources.x archives
- Message-ID: <1656@wyse.wyse.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 88 00:00:19 GMT
- Organization: Wyse Technology, San Jose
- Lines: 300
- Approved: mikew@wyse.com
-
- Submitted-by: mikew@wyse.com
- Posting-number: Volume 1, Info 3
- Archive-name: archives.1
-
- Many people got messed up versions of xfig. It went out fine, but got
- mangled along the way. When problems like this happen, get the source
- from one of the archives sites, I don't have an archive or the time
- to respond to 50 people a day who got part X of posting Y incorrectly.
- I would like to know who got bad copies and would like a copy of the
- news headers so I can try to track down the problem. I know that
- decwrl, mcf, and uunet all have good copies. I don't list uunet as
- an archive site. If you are connected to them you can ask the postmaster
- for more info. At the end are detailed instructions on how to access
- the archives. More sites will be listed there in the future.
-
- Here is what each field means:
- Person/Site: The name of the person and their mail address
- Where: The general area they are located in
- Service: How people will access their archive
- Direct connect: Whether we can establish a UUCP connection for the
- purposes of insuring that the archives are up to date.
- Modems: For sites providing UUCP access, what types of modems are
- available.
-
- Person/Site: James Turner (turner@daisy):
- Where: Mtn View, CA
- Service: Anonymous UUCP & SnailMail tapes
- Direct connect: Yes
- Modems: 1200/2400, Telebits RSN
-
- Person/Site: Rich Kulawiec (rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu)
- Where: Indiana
- Service: Anonymous FTP
- Direct connect: No
-
- Person/Site: Lee Daniels (lee@hhb)
- Where: New Jersey
- Service: anonymous UUCP
- Direct connect: Yes
- Modems: connect: 1200/2400
-
- Person/Site: Paul Vixie (vixie@decwrl.dec.com)
- Where: Palo Alto, California
- Service: Anonymous FTP(decwrl.dec.com), UUCP to existing neighbors
- Direct connect: No
-
- Person/Site: Ron Heiby (heiby@mcdchg)
- Where: Illinois
- Service: Anonymous UUCP
- Direct Connect: Yes
- Modems: 1200 Baud
-
- Person/Site: Sharan Kalwani (shan@mcf.uucp or mcf!shan@umix.cc.umich.edu)
- Where: Michigan
- Service: mail server and possible UUCP access
- Direct connect: Yes
- Modems: 1200/2400, Trailblazer
-
- Person/site: David Herron (david@e.ms.uky.edu)
- Where: Kentucky
- Service: UUCP and anonymous FTP
- Direct connect: ?
- Modems: Trailblazer
-
- Person/site: Russell Brown (russell@imtec)
- Where: Peterborough, Cambrideshire, U.K.
- Service: anonymous UUCP
- Direct connect: Probably not
- Modems: Steebek Quatro - V.22 V.22bis V.23
-
- Person/Site: David Haynes (x-depot@geac)
- Where: Markham, Ontario CANADA
- Service: Mail server, tarmail, Anonymous UUCP, Tape Duplication
- Direct connect: Yes
- Modems: Telebits (X.25 soon)
-
- Person/Site: Jamie Watson (mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw)
- Where: Solothurn, Switzerland
- Service: Anonymous UUCP, SnailMail tapes/diskettes
- Direct connect: No.
- Modems: Multitech 1200/2400
-
- Person/Site: Lee McLoughlin (lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk)
- Where: Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Service: Janet/PSS NIFTP, mail info-server
- Direct connect: No
- Modems: Indirectly thru' modems onto Janet 300/1200/2400
-
- Person/site: Jeff Beadles (jeff@tekcsc.mkt.tek.com)
- Where: Wilsonville, Oregon
- Service: mail server, tapes, possible uucp
- Direct connect: Yes
- Modems: Trailblazer
-
- Detailed instructions:
-
- Person/Site: shan@mcf.uucp (Sharan Kalwani)
-
- Sharan Kalwani at the Michigan Cancer Foundation (shan@mcf.uucp) has
- set up a mail-based server. The archive resides on mcf's machine.
- Comp.sources.x, comp.sources.unix and other stuff are available.
- Mail to "archives@mcf.uucp" and supply the text
- send index from comp.sources.x
-
- for some help on how to access the files and an index of the files
- currently online.
-
- For human help, mail to shan@mcf.uucp or shan%mcf.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu.
-
- Person/Site: lee@hhb (Lee Daniels)
-
- The East Coast Xarchive is now available. The purpose of this archive is
- to provide access to all publicly available X Window System based soft-
- ware through UUCP. The archive contains a complete comp.sources.x direct-
- ory and a copy of what can be found on expo/contrib and expo/pub. The
- expo directories will be updated roughly once a month.
-
- The archive can currently be accessed at 1200 and 2400 baud. I am hoping
- to get a Telebit Trailblazer added in the near future.
-
- I am setting up this archive to be pseudo annonymous. In other words, I
- am giving everyone access, but I want you to ask for a connection using
- the attached form. When you submit the form, I will authorize your host
- to call the archive and I will send you back a copy of the L.sys entry
- for the archive. By not making the archive totally annonymous, I will be
- able to document the usage of the archive in order to help justify its
- existence to the system administrator and upper management. I am hoping
- to have enough information to help justify adding the Telebit Trailblazer.
-
- I am not going to generally provide other access to the archive other than
- UUCP but if you have a special need, send me mail and maybe something can
- be worked out. Please fill out the following form completely and I will
- send you the rest of the information.
-
- Lee Daniels princeton!hhb!lee@uunet.uu.net
- HHB Systems
- 1000 Wyckoff Avenue (201) 848-8000
- Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
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-
- From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
-
- Here's a copy of the current "howto.snarf" file for comp.sources.unix
- archives I maintain. It will have to be modified for addition of the
- "X" archives. Specifically, people will have to snarf something like
- "~/unix/vol01/ZZZZ" or "~/x/vol01/ZZZZ" for the .unix and .x archives,
- respectively. When it's set up, I'll send you an updated "howto.snarf".
-
- Ron.
-
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- 05/17/88 How to snarf files from the comp.sources.unix archives
-
- This file explains how to get files from the comp.sources.unix archive being
- maintained by the Motorola Microcomputer Div. sales office in Schaumburg, IL.
- This is not an official service of Motorola and may be discontinued any time.
- The contents of the comp.sources.unix archive have been donated by the
- submitters of the files to the Usenet comp.sources.unix moderator for free
- availability throughout the community. Motorola assumes no responsibility for
- the contents of these files, including the suitability for their use in any
- application on any hardware. (Some of the material, for example is known not
- to run on systems sold by Motorola.) Any questions about suitability, problems
- with the software or documentation, or anything else related to the contents of
- the files should be directed to the persons who submitted the material
- originally (usually the authors).
- (Now that I think I've covered my behind sufficiently...)
-
- The comp.sources.unix archives are currently resident on a Motorola VME Delta
- Series Model 2616 running System V/68 Release 3.0 named "mcdchg". This system
- is used throughout the day, but one modem line has been made available during
- evening and weekend hours for getting sources from the archives. When logging
- in using these procedures, mcdchg will identify itself as "mcdch1". At some
- time in the future, we may go back to a two-machine networked approach. Any
- sites that already have an established uucp connection with mcdchg should send
- me mail to have archive access "turned on" for your uucp login, as this
- procedure will not work for you as is.
-
- In order to ensure that the archive service does not interfere with real
- work, the uucico for the archive login will be have its "x" permission bits
- turned off at 8 a.m. Chicago local time (CST6CDT) and on again at 6 p.m. on
- weekdays. Execute permission will be turned on throughout Saturday and Sunday.
-
- The following description of how to set up your system's uucp configuration
- files is based on the Honey DanBer UUCP (Basic Networking Utilities)
- implementation, as it's the only one I've used that made any sense.
- You may have to adjust what I say to fit your system's requirements.
-
- The phone number for "mcdch1" is (currently) 1-312-576-7902. There is
- a single line on that number. The modem will answer at 1200bps and will
- require a carraige return to get a "login:" prompt. In response to the
- login prompt, your system should send the login id, "pduucp". The password
- is "public". As I said above, all this is turned off between about 8 a.m.
- and 6 p.m. Chicago time Monday through Friday, so we can get our real work
- done, so don't bother trying it during those periods.
-
- The Systems file entry for doing this looks something like:
- (For HoneyDanBer UUCP (BNU) users. Combine into a single line.)
- mcdch1 Wk1800-0730,Sa,Su ACU 1200 chicago5767902
- "" \r\c in:--in: pduucp word: public
-
- Once you have your system set up to place an outgoing UUCP call to
- "mcdch1", you can retrieve material from the archives. There are two files
- that are excellent choices for testing your link. This file is file
- mcdch1!~/howto.snarf. The current directory of what is stored in the
- comp.sources.unix archives is found in the file mcdch1!~/directory.
- To get either of these, execute a command like:
- uucp mcdch1!~/howto.snarf !~/MYNAME/
- uucp mcdch1!~/directory !~/MYNAME/
-
- The directory is simply the output from "ls -sRxF" on the comp.sources.unix
- archive disk hierarchy. It is updated just before 6 p.m. every day.
- Here is an old sample from the directory:
- total 15 0 directory 1 make.dir* 2 vol1/
-
- ./vol1:
- total 941 16 ANSI.C.Z 12 C-Kermit.ann
- 41 Digest.Z 12 NIC 13 Smail.Z
- 1 UK-1.1/ 1 Xlisp1.4/ 20 bed.Z
-
- ./vol1/UK-1.1:
- total 105 4 Anno 48 Part1.Z 31 Part2.Z 22 Part3.Z
-
- This sample shows part of the first volume of comp.sources.unix. The entries
- with a slash "/" at the end of their names are directories, whose contents are
- detailed below (e.g. UK-1.1). The number preceding each name is the
- approximate size of the file in 512 byte blocks. Entries whose name ends with
- a ".Z" have been compressed by the program compress 4.0, which can be found
- (in uncompressed form) in volume 2.
-
- Be sure to look carefully to be sure you are getting the latest version
- available. Also, look for "index" files to help find what you want.
-
- NOTE: There are occasionally inconsistencies between the archive names we have
- on disk and those published in the index by the comp.sources.unix moderator.
-
- WARNING: These files are not stored under /usr/spool/uucppublic, so requests
- that specify an absolute pathname, rather than one under "~" will almost
- certainly fail.
-
- WARNING: Please be aware that uucp commands asking for file names containing
- wild cards will almost certainly not work. This is because all of the
- implementations I know of submit a uux job to the remote system asking
- it to run "uucp" on the wild card filename. Systems logging in with
- "pduucp" are prohibited from executing "uucp" or other commands via "uux".
- So, be sure to ask for each file separately.
-
- Steve Pearse (wp3b01!pearse) sent the following script which helps make
- the uucp commands easier to issue. I've modified it somewhat. I hope I
- didn't break it too much.
- ##########################
- # getmod - Get comp.sources.unix archives files via uucp
- if [ "$1" = "" ]
- then
- echo "type files in form of [ N/file or N/dir/file ], where"
- echo "N is the volume number (as in volN)"
- echo "or getmod -l to get list of available files"
- exit 1
- fi
- if [ "$1" = "-l" ]
- then
- uucp -m mcdch1!~/directory !~/receive/src.unix/
- exit 0
- fi
- for file
- do
- uucp -m mcdch1!~/vol"$file" !~/receive/src.unix/
- done
- echo "requested file(s) $* on `date`" |tee -a $HOME/modreqs
- exit 0
- ##########################
-
- If you can't figure out why the comp.sources.unix archive doesn't work,
- re-read this file. If you still have trouble, talk with your system
- administrator. If you are the system administrator, send electronic
- mail to me at heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (mcdchg!heiby). Have fun! Ron.
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- Mike Wexler(wyse!mikew) Phone: (408)433-1000 x1330
-