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- Instructions for using a compiled Prospero client:
-
- This file is available via anonymous FTP from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU in
- pub/prospero/compiled-clients/INSTRUCTIONS.
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- We are experimentally providing an already compiled Prospero client
- for those interested in testing the Prospero menu browser. You can
- get the full Prospero distribution via anonymous FTP from
- PROSPERO.ISI.EDU in pub/prospero/prospero.tar.Z or
- pub/prospero/prospero-new.tar.Z. The menu browser client we are
- providing here is only available in the prospero-new distribution,
- since it is still not robust enough to be included in the Prospero
- beta release.
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- At the moment, the only compiled Prospero client available is on the
- Sun 4, under SunOS 4.1.3.
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- To get the client, open an anonymous FTP connection to the directory
- pub/prospero/compiled-clients on the host PROSPERO.ISI.EDU. Go into
- the appropriate subdirectory for your system architecture and
- operating system (this will always be sun4.SunOS4.1.3 for now).
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- Get the files 'menu' and 'vcache'. Put them somewhere you can run
- them. Set the environment variable P_BINARIES to the name of the
- directory where the 'vcache' program is located. (vcache is an
- auxiliary program that does much of the work of file retrieval.)
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- Type 'menu' to run the menu browser. It will display the default
- starting menu we provide in the prototype virtual system. IF you run
- the menu client with the -D9 option, the Prospero protocol messages
- the client sends and receives will be displayed for you.
-
- If you are interested in the Prospero protocol, you may find it particularly
- interesting to see how we represent searches; go into the 'Online Databases'
- directory of the root and pick the item 'archie FTP database at
- SURAnet', and look at the attributes that were sent across associated
- with that link.
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- A bit of documentation on the menu browser is available in the
- Prospero user's manual (pub/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.PS.Z,
- from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU).
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- The next version of the menu browser will support modification of
- virtual systems.
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- Bugs to bug-prospero@ISI.EDU, information requests to
- info-prospero@ISI.EDU.
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