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- Washington University Public Domain Archives
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Washington University
- Office of the Network Coordinator
- One Brookings Drive
- Campus Box 1045
- St. Louis, Missouri USA 63130-4899
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- _E-_m_a_i_l: archives@wugate.wustl.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (314) 362-6186
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- A huge archive of public domain and shareware software,
- including complete collections of most of the source and
- binary groups from USENET, as well as an official mirror
- copy of the Info-Mac archives. Also maintained in the
- archive is the complete source to TeX and the X windowing
- system (Version 11R3) and all of the GNU Project Software. A
- complete set of the Request For Comment (RFCs) documents,
- and Internet Experiment Notes (IENs) may also be found in
- the archives.
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- Other things maintained in the archives include:
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- o+ UUPC (A clone of the UNIX 'UUCP') for most per-
- sonal computers
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- o+ The latest Sun EXchange Tape
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- o+ The public portions of the Berkeley 4.3BSD Tahoe
- release
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- o+ Public Domain implementations of TCP/IP (KA9Q and
- NCSA) for the IBM PC.
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- o+ A collection of GIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
- pictures.
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- June 21, 1989 NNSC Section 3.10, Page 1
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- Most of the files in the archive are compressed using the
- UNIX 'compress' utility to save space. If you are unable to
- decompress files from the archive and need copies of a lim-
- ited number of files, send e-mail to
- archives@wugate.wustl.edu to make special arrangements.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- The archives are currently accessible through anonymous FTP
- from wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4].
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- If sufficient bandwidth is available and network administra-
- tors don't object, members of MIDNET may mount the archives
- on their system using NFS.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _A_r_c_h_i_v_e
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- Anyone may use the archives freely at any time.
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n
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- Current plans for expansion of the archives include:
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- o+ Making recent DECUS (Digital Equipment Corp.
- User's Society) tapes available.
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- o+ Adding more PC (Amiga, Apple II, Atari, IBM PC,
- Macintosh) archives from User's Groups.
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- o+ Mirroring additional valuable archives, including
- the WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL archives.
- Ideas and requests for additional archives are always
- welcome. In particular, any MIDNET archive site which
- would like to exchange archives via NFS is asked to
- send mail to archives@wugate.wustl.edu
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