dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (09/28/89)
wtr@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu (Bill Robison) says: > Willie Smith asked about obtaining the UUCP software from lakart. > If this information is available, please post it for the rest of > us. This sounds interesting and useful. I have mechanisms available > to get from our 780 on Internet to several CP/M formats (both 8 & 5) > if someone gets really stuck for a way to get a copy... The server's address is rna@lakart.uucp - for routes into lakart see my .sig file below. The generic form for a request is: /send whatever to wherever the '/send' and 'to' must be present, and in the places shown, and with no other words added in. The server uses an awk script to pull request lines out, and the format has got to be an exact match so saying /send index won't get anything, since the 'to' and the address are missing. whatever is the file you want, I'd suggest starting with help and index. wherever is your address, and you should note the following: 1. Internet addresses can be handled as is, so if Bill Robison wanted help he'd say: /send help to wtr@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu Note that lakart will route automatically to BITNET, so if you're at a bitnet site: /send index to fred@system.bitnet is all it takes. 2. UUCP addresses for sites in the map can be given as: site!user or user@site.uucp so if I wanted to send stuff to pallio (my CP/M machine at home) I could say: /send index to pallio!dg /send help to dg@pallio.uucp 3. UUCP addresses for sites _NOT_ in the map must be given as a bang path from a backbone / other site that _IS_ in the maps, so if pallio talked to doofus, but doofus wasn't in the maps I'd have to say: /send index to pallio!doofus!john_doe Any questions drop me a line here. BTW, I "audit" all requests, and try to sort out bad ones (i.e. ones that the server can't grok). By far and away the worst "offence" is people who say: /send help without an address. That address is important!! -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+