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**
**
** This is the README file for the MS Windows Anonymous
** FTP Service at the Center for Innovative Computer
** Applications (CICA), Indiana University, Bloomington,
** Indiana.
**
** Hostname: ftp.cica.indiana.edu
** IP: 129.79.26.27
** Filename: /pub/pc/win3/README
** World Wide Web (WWW): http://www.cica.indiana.edu/
** gopher: gopher.cica.indiana.edu
**
** Last Updated: Sat Apr 30 00:55:05 1994
**
** Introduction
The Internet site ftp.cica.indiana.edu (129.79.20.27) is an
anonymous-ftp clearinghouse for MicroSoft Windows (version 3.x only)
applications, tips, utilities, drivers, bitmaps, etc. (The machine is
a SUN Sparcstation 1 running SunOS 4.1.3 with 28MB of main memory and
4 gigabytes of local user file space.)
CICA (Center for Innovative Computer Applications) currently provides
to the anonymous ftp user, free of charge, over 600Mb of PUBLIC DOMAIN
and SHAREWARE Windows-related files. The files are *NOT* virus or
trojan-checked, and by retrieving software from CICA, you assume full
responsibility for their use on your machine(s).
FTP activity at CICA is relentless: Approximately 48,000 logins per
month (or, an average of 1,625 ftp logins that fetch over one gigabyte
of data per day). Therefore users who access this site are URGED to
do so during the non-load hours of 7pm to 7am Eastern Standard Time.
(Eastern Standard is Greenwich Mean Time -5 hours.) Abuse of the
system during load hours will not be tolerated.
You may find the program AUTOFTP, located in pub/unix, helpful to you
in automating ftp file transfers during non-load hours. This program
can be scheduled at non-peak hours to download files from any ftp
site.
You may also find us via GOPHER to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, and through
the World Wide Web (http://cica.cica.indiana.edu).
** Internet Access: FTP
To access CICA, type "ftp 129.79.20.27" to your prompt. You'll be
asked for a login name (type "anonymous"). Enter your username and
sitename (e.g., "bob@black.lodge.wa.edu") as your password. THIS STEP
IS MANDATORY. WE ENFORCE LEGAL PASSWORDS. A shorthand way of
entering your password (for those of you who have terribly long
machine names) would be: "username@". The system will expand your
sitename, so just type your username followed by the "at sign".
If you want to be adventurous and automate the login process, create a
file in your home directory called ".netrc" and make it accessible
only by you (e.g., "chmod og-rwx .netrc"). (This is a VERY IMPORTANT
STEP! Failure to have correct permissions on ".netrc" will cause it
to be IGNORED by ftp/telnet!)
Add the following lines to your .netrc file:
machine ftp.cica.indiana.edu
login anonymous
password enter_your_username@machine.domain.here
This will now eliminate the prompting of your username and password
upon subsequent ftp sessions.
NOTE: On some flavors of Unix, each.netrc entry should only consume
one line. For example:
machine ftp.cica.indiana.edu login anonymous password username@...
So this might be something to try if the above example doesn't work.
** Internet Access: World Wide Web and Gopher
We are available to both WWW and Gopher users.
Our gopher server is gopher.cica.indiana.edu on port 70, the URL for
our World Wide Web (WWW) server is http://www.cica.indiana.edu/
** Mail Server Access
Some lucky individuals have had success accessing the files at
anonymous ftp sites using the BITNET ftp server at Princeton
University. To find out more about this, send a one-line mail message
containing the word HELP to one of the following addresses:
bitftp@pucc.BITNET
bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Help will be sent to you in the form of electronic mail.
Please don't send mail requesting UUCP or mail access to the files
here. We simply don't.
** BITNET Win3-L Listserv Mailing List
To be added to the Listserv mailing list for Windows 3.x, please
send e-mail to listserv@uicvm.BITNET requesting "help". The actual
mailing list where discussions take place is "win3-l@uicvm.BITNET"
(Mail to this list is gatewayed, at many sites, to the
"bit.listserv.win3-l" newsgroup.)
** Software Overview
At this writing, the following Windows areas are represented by the
CICA archives.
Area Directory
----------------------- ---------------------
Microsoft Access Programs pub/pc/win3/access
Various Windows Demo Programs pub/pc/win3/demo
Desktop Image, Util, BMP Files pub/pc/win3/desktop
Software Drivers/Printers pub/pc/win3/drivers/printer
Software Drivers/Video pub/pc/win3/drivers/video
Microsoft Excel pub/pc/win3/excel
Windows Soft Fonts pub/pc/win3/fonts
Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Fonts pub/pc/win3/fonts/atm
TrueType Fonts pub/pc/win3/fonts/truetype
Windows Games and Diversions pub/pc/win3/games
Windows Icons, Icon Editors, etc. pub/pc/win3/icons
Miscellaneous Files (tips, etc.) pub/pc/win3/misc
Windows NT Files pub/pc/win3/nt
Aldus PageMaker Files pub/pc/win3/pagemkr
Various Patches and Upgrades pub/pc/win3/patches
Official Symantec Corp Patches pub/pc/win3/patches/symantec
Paradox for Windows pub/pc/win3/pdoxwin
Windows Programming pub/pc/win3/programr
Asymetrix ToolBook Applications pub/pc/win3/toolbook
Borland C++ Windows Programs pub/pc/win3/programr/bcpp
Program Listings from Publications pub/pc/win3/programr/listings
Windows Turbo Pascal Programming pub/pc/win3/programr/tp
Windows Visual Basic Programming pub/pc/win3/programr/vbasic
Visual Basic Library Files pub/pc/win3/programr/vbasic/vblib
Windows Sounds and Util Files pub/pc/win3/sounds
Windows Supplemental Devlpmnt Lib pub/pc/win3/sdl
General Windows Utilities pub/pc/win3/util
Windows Sockets (Winsock) Apps pub/pc/win3/winsock
Word for Windows Utilities, Files pub/pc/win3/winword
Windows Resource Kit Files pub/pc/win3/wrk
WordPerfect for Windows Utils pub/pc/win3/wpwin
********************************************************************
** **
** Please note that the organization of this collection is our **
** intellectual property. Anyone copying, distributing or **
** selling this collection without our express consent **
** (verbal or written) is prohibited. **
** **
********************************************************************
** Getting Software: The INDEX and ls-ltR Files
Go into the win3 directory ("cd pub/pc/win3"), and see what we have by
getting the BINARY (compressed) version of our INDEX file (type "get
index.zip" to your ftp prompt). Note: You will need PKZip version
2.04g (or better) to unzip this file. (If you do not have PKUNZIP.EXE
2.04g or better, please get the file:
ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/starter/pkz204g.exe
This is a self-extracting archive file that will bring you up-to-date.
Back to our INDEX file...
The INDEX file (inside the .zip file) contains a list of all the files
available on CICA, organized by subdirectory. Each listing consists
of the file's name, date received (YYMMDD format), and a brief, and an
oftentimes subjective description of the file. The INDEX file is
updated only after new files in the "UPLOADS" area have been moved
into appropriate subdirectory on disk. (Set your tab stops at 8 for
correct viewing.)
For those with disk space quotas, restricted download limits, etc., I
have made attempts to identify those files whose size is greater than
500Kb. While I understand that many people would like to have the
file sizes as a part of the INDEX entry, it's just too time consuming
at this point to add this feature. (Each INDEX entry is created
manually, by hand. Eight characters (plus padding) eats into valuable
space for the file description.)
The file "ls-ltr.zip" is a compressed version of a texfile output
from the "ls -ltR" command on the entire Windows directory structure.
This file presents an ordered list sorted BY DATE of the files in each
subdirectory. This file is updated several times daily. Note: You
will need PKZip version 2.04g (or better) to unzip this file.
** Downloading Software
Public domain and Shareware utilities maintained here are in
compressed format. You will need to have either ZOO, PKUNZIP, PKXARC,
or LHARC to work with these files on the PC. Look in the
pub/pc/starter directory if you don't have these utilities.
Change into individual directories (e.g., "cd fonts") and issue a
"dir" or "ls -CF" command to see the available files. When you are
ready to download, tell ftp you're transferring binary files (type
"tenex" or "binary" [or worse yet, "quote type L"] to your ftp prompt)
and you're ready to retrieve files (e.g., "get filename").
** Uploading Software
Please place all uploads in the pub/pc/win3/UPLOADS subdirectory. The
same rules apply to uploading as downloading: if the file is binary,
type "tenex" (or "binary" or "quote type L") first before doing a "put
filename".
There is a standard file format here so that you won't need fifteen
different file compression utilities to unwrap the software.
Therefore, please use PKZIP (version 1.1 or later) or ZOO (version
2.00 or later) to wrap your software. PKZIP-Self Extracting Archive
Files may be uploaded and will probably be converted to .ZIPs at a
later date (especially self-extracting .EXE files that are ZIP-ped!)
Lastly, and most importantly, files placed in the "UPLOADS" directory
that contain no clue as to their usefulness will be removed.
** A Note about our Time Zone
We are located in the beautiful Southern Indiana. Indiana is the
western boundary of the Eastern Time Zone. Indiana (like parts of
Arizona), as you might NOT know, DOES NOT ADJUST ITS CLOCKS FOR
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. Therefore, we are on Eastern Standard Time
(EST) 365 days per year.
When the United States moves its clocks in April for Daylight Savings
Time, that places us, while still in Eastern Standard Time, on the
same time as Chicago--which is on Central DAYLIGHT Time. So, during
DST, EST==CDT. Confused? So are we.
** Files NOT Accepted at ftp.cica.indiana.edu
As is a standard practice with most anonymous-ftp sites, certain
programs, files, or software are outside the mission of archive
operations, and therefore will NOT be selected for inclusion in the
collection. These files can include (but are not limited to) any
software: containing prejudiced or discriminatory material related to
(but not limited to) religion, politics, race, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, etc.; that is adult or sexually-explicit in nature; or
otherwise considered unsuitable by the site moderator.
** A Note About Bitmap Files (.BMP)
Since the inception of this archive in June 1990, many thousands of
users have had access to these files and plenty of time to
"snarf and share" the bitmap images with their friends, families, and
their favorite local bulletin boards and ftp sites. Therefore, the
images stored here will age six months before they are purged. This
is the only relief valve we currently have to keep disk space alive
for the other files.
** Mirror Sites to the CICA Ftp Collection
Several other Internet archives "mirror" the CICA collection; that is,
they maintain an exact mirror image of the files contained here on
their own machine. One of the major benefits of mirror sites is that
you can select a site close to home. This will generally increase the
speed and reliability of connections for those folks overseas.
One word of caution: The information below is ALWAYS subject to
change. It has been VERY DIFFICULT keeping up with the comings and
goings of mirror sites. (As of this writing (Wed Mar 23 1994), there
are more mirror sites that I know of, but haven't had the time to add
them to this file. Please stay tuned.)
Some sites currently mirrorring us include:
NORTH AMERICA-------------------------------------------------------
wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]
ftp.cdrom.com [192.153.46.2]
ftp.marcam.com [198.102.216.30]
polecat.law.indiana.edu [129.79.131.170]
OVERSEAS------------------------------------------------------------
vmsa.technion.ac.il [132.68.7.2] (Israel Institute of Technology)
nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] (Switzerland)
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13] (Stuttgart, Germany)
ftp.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.106] (Monash Univ, Melbourne Australia)
nctuccca.edu.tw [140.111.3.21] (Chiao Tung Univ, Hsinchu,Taiwan)
src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1] (JANET mirror at Imperial College, London)
ftp.nectec.or.th [192.150.251.32] (Thialand)
ftp.iij.ad.jp:/pub/win3 [192.244.176.50] (Internet Initiative, Tokyo Japan)
ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl [149.156.1.8] (Cracow, Poland)
Other ftp sites containing Windows files:
United States
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ftp.hawaii.edu 128.171.44.2
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu 128.153.28.129
milton.u.washington.edu 128.95.136.1
serv1.cl.msu.edu 35.8.2.41
msdos.umich.edu 141.211.164.153
wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4
Foreign/Overseas
----------------
bode.ee.ualberta.ca 129.128.16.96
ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43
forwiss.uni-passau.de 132.231.20.10
garbo.uwasa.fi 128.214.12.3
lut.fi 128.214.25.8
methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de 130.133.2.81
ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95
archie.au 139.130.4.6
** CICA on CDROM
The entire CICA Windows archive is published on *THREE* CDROMs!
These discs (which you found this file on) contain all of the files
in the archive uncompressed and include a Windows (tm) frontend for
easy browsing, running, and installation of any of the included
material. These discs, which conform to the ISO-9660 standard,
contain approximately 1600Mb of files. The set is available for
$25.00 US (plus shipping and handling) from InfoMagic, Inc.
It will be updated quarterly and is available on a subscription basis
for $20 per release. To order, send a check, money order, or
MasterCard/VISA information to:
InfoMagic, Inc.
PO Box 30370;
Flagstaff, AZ 86003-0370
Tel: +1 800 800-6613 (US Only)
+1 602 526-9565
FAX: +1 602 526-9573
E-Mail: orders@InfoMagic.com
** What?! This didn't answer all of your questions?
E-mail to ftp@cica.indiana.edu to get an AUTOMATED reply of commonly
asked questions and answers. To speak with a human, send mail to
ftp-admin@cica.indiana.edu.
Please don't send mail to cica@cica, postmaster@cica, or root@cica.
They will produce no replies.
** A Reminder!
Please, PLEASE remember to type "tenex" or "binary" or "quote type L"
to your ftp program *BEFORE* uploading or downloading binary files.
So many people report "corrupt files" when they didn't type "tenex"
before downloading. Same goes for uploading files.
Also, if you are stuck in the 1980s and are using KERMIT to transfer
from your Unix (or VAX, God forbid) host to your PC, remember to tell
kermit "set file type binary" before beginning the download.
If you want to be adventurous, install Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem on
your host machine. Chuck Forsberg's public domain sources are in
~ftp/pub/unix/rzsz9107.tar.Z
*****************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************
** **
** DISCLAIMER **
** **
** UPLOADING COPYRIGHTED AND OTHERWISE RESTRICTED SOFTWARE TO THE UPLOADS **
** DIRECTORY AT CICA IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. UNIVERSITY COMPUTING **
** SERVICES' (UCS) CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (CICA) **
** AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PLACEMENT AND **
** ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF COPYRIGHTED SOFTWARE TO ITS UPLOADS DIRECTORY. **
** **
** WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REMOVE ANY MATERIAL FROM THIS ARCHIVE **
** THAT IS NOT CONSONANT WITH THE GOALS AND PURPOSE OF THIS SITE. **
** **
*****************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************
** And lastly...
We wish to express sincere thanks to our friends at Xerox Corporation
for their support of this ftp site.
--
Michael Regoli
mr@cica.indiana.edu
a.k.a. ftp-admin@cica.indiana.edu
regoli@indiana.bitnet
...rutgers!moose!cica!mr