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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: What is what in the GNUniverse?
- In-Reply-To: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.085053.2588@nntp.hut.fi>
- Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> <1992Dec17.031048.20796@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:50:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.031048.20796@samba.oit.unc.edu>, jem@sunSITE (Jonathan Magid) writes:
- >Would you believe that I have already done this? the INDEX file in
- >sunsite.unc.edu's mirror of prep (/pub/gnu) contains what you are looking
- >for. In a couple of cases, its a few decimal places behind in version
- >number (I wrote it a couple of months ago and haven't updated it since).
-
- Great! At nic.funet.fi, we also had some feedback that the GNU
- software distribution is not documented very well, this will help at
- least some. Nic.funet.fi has plans to develop some information
- services about available software and perhaps indexes and cataloging
- GNU software will be part of it.
-
- The file from sunsite is now also on pub/gnu/INDEX at nic.funet.fi.
- Also, at otax.tky.hut.fi there's a gopher server with some pointers to
- GNU software and information - gopher is an internet information
- service available from boomboc.micro.umn.edu and once you've installed
- gopher, you can access the otax GNU directory with
-
- gopher -p English/Topics otax.tky.hut.fi
-
- and then selecting GNU from the menu. Please however note the README
- file on the directory:
-
- "This machine (otax.tky.hut.fi) is an old Sun 3/60 owned by HUT student
- body with 8629 accounts on it at the time I'm writing this
- and it's got a high load especially in the daytime (time
- zone is GMT+2h or GMT+3h in the summer, you can get GMT time on
- most Unix systems with "date -u") and the gopher ftp gateway is
- implemented so that the stuff is ftp'd to otax and then gopher'd
- to you so please don't put too heavy load on this machine
- by ftp'ing megabytes of GNU software via the otax.tky.hut.fi gopher
- server, especially at daytime. Instead you can ftp directly from nic.funet.fi,
- prep.ai.mit.edu or any of the other ftp servers
- (see GNU info files/FTP for a list of sites carrying GNU software).
-
- The GNU subtree of this gopher server will probably move to gopher.funet.fi
- (which is currently the same machine as nic.funet.fi) in the future, and
- this directory will change into a link there."
-
- Ideas for how to organize the software distribution for easy access
- via gopher are welcome. Currently it's just some pointers to the ftp
- archives and the abovementioned INDEX file, but some menus like
- "Software development tools", "GNU Bulletins", "Editors" and so on and
- putting the README files from the packages as well as pointers to the
- actual software there would make browsing the archives easier for
- people who can't recite the list of GNU packages by heart.
-
- (followups directed to gnu.misc.discuss)
-
- //Jyrki
-