acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu) (12/01/89)
FILE: help contribution LAST CHANGE: Oct 30th, 1989. Submitting files to Alex's Mail Archive Server ============================================== As with any user supported file database, its contents are as good as its submissions by users. So, if you have anything to share please, don't hesitate to submit it. As any other commodore users, I have always felt the fustration of not being able to find programs for my commodore that suits my tastes. Most commercial software now-a-days, consist mostly of games, and very few are of very good quality. And productivity software is allmost non existant. Or if it exist with very limited capabilities. (Of course, there are always exceptions to this). The idea of this archive is to provide commodore users of an alternative source of FREE, or shareware software to commodore users in the net. There is supposed to be thousands of shareware/freeware programs out there, very few of them gets distributed over the net. This archive is one of the ways this files can get distributed. Even programs download from Quantum-Link are welcome here (Remember that not all users has access to Q-Link) How to Submit files to the Mail Archive server ============================================== The Mail-Archive-Server has provisions to receive file contributions from users all over the net. To do so, you have to Send mail to me, with a Subject line of: Subject: Mail-Archive-Request and at the beginning of your message (that is, BEFORE the file that you wish to submit) enter the following line: receive volume file Inmediatly after that, insert the file that you want to submit. Please try to submit files in UUencoded format or Unix-Shar archives. If you still wish to send a plain ASCII file, please make sure that the file does NOT contain any line beginning with 'path', since that will cause the server to think that you want to change the return address of the file. FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT STUFF ANYTIME NOTE on filenames: ================== Please try to avoid using "/" in the filename. (A usually try to follow the protocol, that every "/" in a Commodore filename, gets translated to a Unix ":" and every ":" in a Unix filename gets translated to Commdore "/". --- Alex C. Liu acliu%skat@usc.edu acliu@skat.usc.edu (Simple .signature, $CHEAP$)
flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu (12/02/89)
Would someone kindly point me to a source for the funny 8-pin DIN connector that plugs into the Commodore "VIDEO OUT" socket? Had no luck at my local Tandy -- their 8-pin DIN male cable-end connectors use a different pin-pattern. Reply direct to FLINTON@eagle.Wesleyan.EDU -- spare the net. Thanks. -- Fred
flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu (12/04/89)
In article <4443@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, I <flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu> sought: > ... a source for the funny 8-pin DIN connector that plugs into the Commodore > "VIDEO OUT" socket ... Call off the search: I've now found two such plugs, one more than I needed. Thanks to all those who sought to help. (No source, just stumbled on a random cable w/ one on each end at a local computer fair Saturday, good enough for me.) -- Fred