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- Q: How do I subscribe to the info-pascal (comp.lang.pascal) mailing
- list?
-
- A: This is not an actual Turbo Pascal question, but it is closely
- related because many of the questions discussed in this FAQ
- collection originate from the Usenet comp.lang.pascal newsgroup. If
- you do not have access to the Usenet news you can get the news
- postings emailed to you. To do this send an email message to
- info-pascal-request@arl.army.mil
- Use the following subject line
- info-pascal
- Put one of the following in the body of the message
- subscribe
- unsubscribe,
- help
- The person maintaining this system who kindly provided the
- information is Fred S. Brundick (fsbrn@arl.army.mil).
- Please be careful to send all messages regarding list maintenance to
- info-pascal-request@arl.army.mil. When you wish to make a posting
- by email to comp.lang.pascal send it to info-pascal@arl.army.mil.
-
- A2: The old info-pascal postings are stored at
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil by month in the directory
- PD2:<ARCHIVES.PASCAL>
- The file names are of the form
- yymm.1-TXT-Z (Apr 84 -- Aug 90)
- or
- yymm.#-TXT (Sep 90 -- last month)
- where yymm means Year and Month and # is the part number (see below).
- The archives for the current month are in
- PASCAL-ARCHIV.TXT
- Archives from April 1984 through Aug 1990 are stored in compressed
- form and must be ftp'd in TENEX mode. From Sept 1990 to the present
- each month is broken into multiple files (not compressed) and each part
- is numbered. For example, May 1991 is stored in the files
- 9105.1-TXT
- 9105.2-TXT
- 9105.3-TXT
-