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- From: jfy@cis.ksu.edu (Joseph F. Young)
- Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative,rec.arts.startrek.misc
- Subject: Star Trek story archive (weekly FAQ -- automated posting)
- Followup-To: alt.startrek.creative
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 11:58:59 GMT
- Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
- Lines: 69
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <jfy.726062407@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: depot.cis.ksu.edu
- Summary: Description of archive of ST stories and how to access it
- Keywords: Stories, FTP, Mail Server, ST, TNG
-
- Last updated: 18 Dec 92
-
- ------------------------------FTP--------------------------------------
- I've seen many inquiries about an anonymous ftp archive for the
- stories that appear in alt.startrek.creative. As others have
- mentioned, I maintain an archive on ftp.cis.ksu.edu (129.130.10.80) in
- the directory /pub/alt.startrek.creative. All files are compressed using
- the ZIP format, used by INFO-ZIP's "zip" and "unzip" and PK-WARE's "pkzip"
- and "pkunzip" programs, among others.
- Programs, both in binary and source form, to handle this format are available
- on other archive sites.
- If you cannot find a program to handle ZIP files, use the
- archive mail server described below.
-
- If you find a story that I've missed, especially any of the ones that
- appeared early in the life of this group or in the rec.arts.startrek.*
- groups, mail it to me (jfy@cis.ksu.edu) or upload it to /pub/upload on
- the archive site.
-
- If you have any contributions to the archive, suggestions, etc. you
- may also email them to me.
-
- -----------------------------Mail--------------------------------------
- For all those unfortunates who don't have Internet ftp access, I've
- setup a mailserver to provide access to the archives on
- ftp.cis.ksu.edu.
-
- This mailserver can be contacted via mail one of the following
- addresses:
-
- ...!rutgers!depot!mailserver (UUCP)
- mailserver@cis.ksu.edu (Internet)
-
- The server accepts commands given in the body of the mail messages;
- help is available with the command "help".
-
- A listing of the files in
- the story archive may be obtained by "dir -l /pub/alt.startrek.creative".
-
- Since the story archive consists of ZIP files, they must
- be uuencoded before they are sent on their way. To specify this mode,
- use the command "encode uuencode" To retrieve the files, use the
- "send" command (ex: send /pub/alt.startrek.creative/story/tng/TheMoralsOfWar.zip
-
- If you have a system which cannot handle ZIP files, you may use
- the "unzip" filter ("encode unzip")
- which will send you the uncompressed (but not uuencoded) version of the file.
-
- Here is an example mail message:
-
- % Mail mailserver@cis.ksu.edu
- Subject: request
- help
- encode uue
- send /pub/alt.startrek.creative/story/tng/TheMoralsOfWar.zip
- ^D
- %
-
- Please note that this is completely experimental and is not bug free.
- Questions and problems about this mailserver may be directed to
- "mailserver-reply@cis.ksu.edu".
-
-
-
- --
- Joseph Young, Systems Programmer
- KSU Department of Computing and Information Sciences
- Manhattan, Kansas 66506 FAX: (913) 532-7353 Phone: (913) 532-6350
- Internet: jfy@cis.ksu.edu UUCP: rutgers!depot!jfy
-