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- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: archie and the archives (was Re: where mathtime.sty)
- Message-ID: <00963D76.6273F440.1186@SHSU.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:35:16 CST
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- In <1992Nov17.170337.19009@src.dec.com> (comp.text.tex, Tue, 17 Nov 92
- 17:03:37 GMT), harrison@src.dec.com (Stephen Harrison) asked:
- > How hard would it be to make ymir team up with archie a bit?
-
- I hesitate to speak for Don or Aston on this, but I see this question about
- our archives about three times a week and SHSU has the same problem these
- sites have. Specifically, YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU, Niord.SHSU.edu, and
- tex.ac.uk are VMS machines, which archie doesn't work with (archie is just
- about totally focused on Unix machines). I understand that some new
- version of archie (which, unfortunately, I understand to be proprietary
- instead of in the pd, as it is currently) is in the works which has the
- ability to properly poll non-Unix platforms (which is about all archie
- presently handles).
-
- Speaking only for SHSU on this, I would **LOVE** for archie to have access
- to our archives. I feel sure that my colleagues on VMS feel similarly, but
- cannot absolutely say for sure and thus don't imply that this is or isn't
- their desire also. Unfortunately, until the re-write of archie is around,
- it is technically impossible for archie to handle YMIR, Aston, or SHSU.
- However, you will find Aston's daughter machine, ftp.tex.ac.uk, on archie
- and should soon see pip.SHSU.edu, as well (and, if I understand correctly,
- ymir will be supplemented by a Unix box in the near future, as well).
-
- Regards, George
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