Kagi Frequently Asked Question

Question:

Obtaining and uploading software?

Answer:

One thing that is not always clear to new authors is that kagi is not a major FTP site similar to Simtel or Info-Mac, we mainly just process software payments. Authors upload their software to whatever sites they feel give them the most exposure. When people pay for the software, they contact us.

We do offer FTP and Web space to our customers for an additional charge that is based upon the sales of the products they offer. For more details about this service seeWeb and FTP space at Kagi.

That said, here are the FTP sites that have been recommended to me as the places to upload your software for a wide distribution:

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Windows

For Windows authors, I am told that the major distribution points are:
1. SimTel: ftp to SimTel.Coast.NET and from there it gets to www.shareware.com. The URL is http://www.cdrom.com/simtel.net/.
2. Download: Download.com check out their web site for details. They just make a link to your program but it does generate lots of downloads.
3. Winsite: ftp to ftp.winsite.com
4. www.hotfiles.com: a Ziff Davis site. They put your program on line in about a month or little more and they usually make a review of your software rating it
5. You can find a great start point to the submit pages for these sites and more shareware resources at:
http://mini.net/sax/resource/1Main.html
6. The main online services: CompuServe, America Online, MSN
7. And less important:
http://www.jumbo.com/

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Macintosh

For Mac authors the major site is Info-Mac. Except for Compuserve, all other Mac archives, including America Online, grab files from Info-Mac.

Info-Mac Upload Instructions

The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Liam Breck, Igor Livshits, Adam C. Engst

The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try:

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/help/mirror-list.txt

Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/.

Administrative queries & info: mailto:info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Articles for digest publication: mailto:info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Files for inclusion: mailto:macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu

To submit a file greater than 800K, or to avoid submitting by (and segmenting for) email, send email describing the file to

mailto:backmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu and upload it to:

ftp://macgifts:macgifts@info-mac.org/

-- username/password macgifts/macgifts at info-mac.org

As with emailed submissions, non-text files must be binhexed.

Other places to announce your product include:
http://www.macdirectory/pages/submitsoft.html

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Newton

The two big sites are:
http://www.amug.org/amug_newton.html
http://newton.uiowa.edu/

And fairly new is Rob Bruce's Ultimate Newton page:
http://rainbow.rmii.com/~rbruce/

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If you have suggested corrections to this information, please let us know.

Modification Date: Tuesday, March 11, 1997