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From: Greg Schmidt <large!gregs@HOOKUP.NET>
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.archives
Subject: ADMIN: Archive sites part 1.
Followup-To: rec.games.frp.misc
Date: 2 May 1995 14:29:38 -0400
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Due to a lack of free time, this list is no longer being maintained. As
such, it is becoming increasingly out-of-date. For example, the greyhawk
archive has been rearranged, and moved to ftp.mpgn.com.
My mail server (see below) will continue to fill requests, and the portions
of the list referring to the machine 'large' are still mostly accurate. I
may at some time in the future re-start this project, or, more realistically,
post updates of what is available through my mail server.
If anyone is interested in taking over the maintenance of this list, contact
me, and I'll send you everything I have that might be of use.
Volume 2 of this set of postings lists only fiction. Volume 3 lists general
interest files, such as public domain RPGs, adventure ideas and other GM aids,
lists, and so on. Volume 4 lists the various net.books. Volume 5 lists RPG
related programmes (character generators, etc.).
Each item has a pathname associated with it. If the item is in a single file,
the pathname will specify the file. If the item is in multiple files, standard
UNIX wildcards will be used (ie. fiction/navero/*). In some cases (ie. the
Tabolport archives), there may be subdirectories, which I do not differentiate
from normal files (ie. campaign/tabolport/*). Also, all paths are relative to
the base directory given below. There are unfortunately some very long paths,
so I have inserted a blank line between each entry, to improve readability.
The site list below does not include all sites at which role-playing material
is available; there are a couple of small sites I hope to add Real Soon Now.
If you want anything from this list, there are several things you can do.
1) First, try getting it by ftp.
2) If you don't have ftp access, attempt to contact the author. Most people
that posted or uploaded these things like to know that there is interest
out there, and this way you can let them know.
3) There are mail servers out there (don't ask me where) which will perform an
FTP for you, and mail the results.
4) In extreme cases, use my automated mail server. For the help file, send
mail to hookup.net!large!sams-help (soon to be sams-help@large.UUCP). Note
that practically everything I save, I re-format to suit my personal tastes,
so what you get from me may not look like what the author wrote (I do leave
the text intact, apart from the occasional spelling correction). In
particular, I like to break up large files into smaller parts (eg. one file
for each of the monsters/items/whatever in the net.books).
Archive site Directory Notes
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ccosun.caltech.edu /pub/adnd a.k.a. sandman.cco.caltech.edu
elbereth.rutgers.edu /pub/sfl r.a.sf archive
ftp.cs.pdx.edu /pub/frp a.k.a. potemkin.cs.pdx.edu
ftp.funet.fi /pub/doc/games/roleplay
ftp.nau.edu /rpg
ftp.umd.umich.edu /pub/frp
ftp.warwick.ac.uk /pub/fiction
ftp.white.toronto.edu /pub/frp
greyhawk.stanford.edu /D_D
ics.uci.edu /usenet/rec.games.frp
morticia.cnns.unt.edu /pub/lists
ocf.berkeley.edu /pub/Traveller
perseus.unm.edu /incoming
soda.berkeley.edu /pub
sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca /pub
suphys.physics.su.oz.au /mar
teetot.acusd.edu /pub/Beelzebub/Role-Playing
ucbvax.berkeley.edu /pub/games
large /usr/news My personal system; available through
mail server only (see #4 above)
Legend:
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* Still in progress (latest episode number may be wrong)
~ Incomplete/outdated collection
+ Co-exists with other files in archive (you have to get the file, and then
extract the portion(s) you want)
Notes:
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o For all fiction, if there was only one part, no number is given; otherwise
the part numbers are given. Anything else is labelled descriptively.
o If multiple archive sites are given, the item was found at more than one
site. The same item may have different filenames on the same site; this
may indicate a different format, accidental duplication, or completely
different files (it is normally obvious from the context).
o Filenames containing ".ps" are generally PostScript files. Filenames
containing ".tex" (except those containing ".text") are generally LaTeX
files. If it's not obvious from the filename, I have indicated the type
(WP is Word Perfect, WfW is Microsoft Word for Windows).
o If anyone can fill in any blanks, or provide newer email addresses for some
of the authors listed (many are quite old), please let me know.
o I do not vouch for the quality of anything contained herein.
o Make sure you set binary mode before ftping compressed or executable files.
o There always seem to be lots of questions about how to extract text from
various archived files.
o If the filename ends in .Z, the answer is uncompress, a UNIX command
which is also available in many incarnations for DOS or Macs. Simply
type "uncompress filename", where filename does not have to have the .Z
included (but may). Note that uncompress may also be invoked as
"compress -d". The GNU package gzip can also uncompress these files.
o If the filename ends in .gz (or possibly just .z), the answer is gzip,
a GNU product available from a variety of sites, as DOS executables or
source. Also, .taz and .tgz indicate gzipped tar files.
o If the filename ends in .tar, the answer is tar, another UNIX command
which has often been ported. To extract files of this sort, the command
is "tar xvf filename", where filename must include the .tar. This is
often combined with compress to give *.tar.Z files (first uncompress,
then untar).
o If the filename ends in .zoo, the answer is zoo, a DOS command which
has been ported to UNIX. To extract these files, use "zoo x filename",
where filename does not have to have the .zoo included (but may).
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Greg Schmidt (gregs@large.UUCP)
For help with my role-playing file server, send mail to sams-help@large.UUCP
For Infinity Publishing information, send mail to infinity-info@large.UUCP
Note: above addresses to user@large.UUCP may not yet be functional at
your site. hookup.net!large!user is more guaranteed to work.