karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) (01/27/86)
As we have with past versions of GNU Emacs, we at osu-eddie are making the latest version available to any site who cares to call long di$tance (or locally, for a few sites) to get it. ============================== Instructions for obtaining GNU Emacs from osu-eddie via UUCP. Richard Stallman's GNU Emacs version 17.43 is available from site osu-eddie. This is exactly the contents of edist.tar.Z from host mit-prep.ARPA (aka prep.mit.edu) as of 26 Jan at approximately 11am. The complete distribution including the TeX-format manual is present. GNU Emacs is kept online for distribution purposes as a packed tar file, cut into twelve pieces for the sake of UUCP sanity. (UUCP will not normally succeed on a single file more than a couple 100Kb long.) Any site wishing to copy GNU Emacs from osu-eddie in this form is welcome to do so during non-prime hours. An L.sys or Systems line suitable for osu-eddie: osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-422-7709 login: gnumacs word: gnumacs Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. This is a restricted login, in that osu-eddie will not permit logging in under the userid `gnumacs' outside the period 11pm-6am Eastern time. This is to save prime-time operation for (primarily) local access. I know this is more restricted than it used to be, but the load on our lone dialin line has been very heavy; we are trying to get a second line, and when that shows up, the time restriction will be eased. The files for GNU Emacs can be accessed from UUCP as the set of files ~/gnumacs.dist/Part-[a-l]. That's twelve parts. They are set up as 11 pieces which are exactly 200000 bytes long, and a fragment 12th, which is 98285 bytes long. If your UUCP session with osu-eddie fails midway, you can restart at the part which failed, without having to start over entirely. This should reduce the grief component considerably. Total time spent on the phone at 1200 baud with osu-eddie while picking up the files should be on the order of 4 to 5 hours; this is only an estimate, your mileage will vary. After copying the files, you should then cat Part-[a-l] > edist.tar.Z and uncompress edist.tar.Z. If you do not have compress already, that is also available from UUCP as the file ~/compress.shar. It is about 87K long. After uncompress'ing edist.tar.Z, edist.tar should be exactly 5,847,040 bytes long. These instructions are accessible from UUCP as ~/gnumacs.ins. If you have any troubles in obtaining GNU Emacs in this manner, please feel free to write some mail. I'll be happy to help as far as I can. Karl Kleinpaste osu-eddie!karl or karl@ohio-state.CSNET cbrma!karl -- Karl Kleinpaste