smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (07/03/87)
Are the Simtel Archives broken? When I try to order software using the instructions that were posted a while back, I get returned mail indicating that the mail box `archive-request' does not exist at simtel20.arpa. What is happening? Stefan Vorkoetter University of Waterloo
w8sdz@brl-smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) (07/05/87)
The SIMTEL20 archive server has been shut down. The message below
explains.
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Date: Friday, 26 June 1987 08:58-MDT
From: Frank J. Wancho <WANCHO at SIMTEL20.ARPA>
To: INFO-CPM, INFO-MICRO at BRL.ARPA, INFO-IBMPC at C.ISI.EDU
cc: INFO-HZ100 at RADC-TOPS20.ARPA, INFO-HAMS, ADA-SW, UNIX-SW,
INFO-APPLE at BRL.ARPA, INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Re: Archive Server Shutdown
Several changes to the Archive Server have been made in the past few
weeks to improve service for replies sent through intermediate hosts.
One of the requested changes was to reduce the size of the messages by
half so that these messages don't hog the single-stream mail
channels, particularly on BITNET, for extended periods of time, and
thus give other mail a chance to get through in a timely manner.
Unfortunately, this has resulted in the SIMTEL20 mail queue to rapidly
grow way beyond all expectations: the Server was now generating twice
as many messages and our dedicated mailer for this service now had to
establish twice as many connections for the same number of replies.
That mailer could not keep up with the the queue, and for the second
time in as many weeks, we have had to shutdown the Server because we
were running out of disk space.
Because the disk space is at a premium for our regular users, and
because the resources required by both the Server and the mailer have
now reached a point well beyond the capabilities of our present system
configuration, the Server has been shut down until further notice and
for an indefinite period of time. New requests will be returned
unanswered, and both present requests and replies will be flushed.
In the meantime, we are examining other possibilities to provide
access to our collections. Because the great majority of requests
have come from BITNET users, we are looking for one or more BITNET
hosts willing to provide the disk space and BITSERV facilities for one
or more of our collections of public domain software.
--Frank
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Keith Petersen
Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA
Uucp: {bellcore,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz
GEnie: W8SDZtodd@net1.ucsd.edu (Todd Goodman) (07/06/87)
In article <1055@watmum.UUCP> smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP writes: >Are the Simtel Archives broken? >Stefan Vorkoetter >University of Waterloo I've sent in some requests and have gotten NOTHING back at all. Todd Goodman todd@net1.ucsd.edu ...!sdcsvax!todd@net1
myxm@beta.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) (07/07/87)
In article <3415@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, todd@net1.ucsd.edu (Todd Goodman) writes: > In article <1055@watmum.UUCP> smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP writes: > >Are the Simtel Archives broken? The people down at white sands have shut down simtel-20's mail server. you can still get to it with anonymous ftp though..
JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET (J.J. Lehett) (10/04/89)
I am hoping someone out there can help me....I am familiar with most
FTP sites, however I do not understand how to get to the MSDOS directory
in Simtel 20. At the login directory when using anonymous FTP I only get
about 10 text files....
How do I get to the MSDOS directory - I have tried cd msdos, cd PD1:,
and other combinations.
Please reply to me, as I do not often read this list.
Thanks a lot in advance!
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********************************************************************w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) (10/05/89)
JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET (J.J. Lehett) writes: > I am hoping someone out there can help me....I am familiar with most >FTP sites, however I do not understand how to get to the MSDOS directory >in Simtel 20. At the login directory when using anonymous FTP I only get >about 10 text files.... Those ten text files are there to answer these kinds of questions. Start by downloading 00-README.TXT from the default anonymous directory. > How do I get to the MSDOS directory - I have tried cd msdos, cd PD1:, >and other combinations. cd pd1:<msdos.xxx> Where xxx is the subdirectory name you want. What subdirectories are there? Download this file from the default anonymous directory: SIMTEL20-MSDOS.DIRLIST For a complete overview download: SIMTEL-ARCHIVES.INFO Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74] Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz