shafferj@amethyst.bucknell.edu (02/03/89)
This, also, is for the person apparently at Xerox.COM whose address came to me with a '.' in the username and '.Houston' tacked on to the end of the domain name. (1) 'superunarc.uue' is an invalid filename. The name is SUPUNARC UUE Please note the eight-letter limit and the lack of a period between filename and filetype. This is an IBM-imposed restriction and I don't like it either... (2) If the server says that a file is not yet available, it means just that. I'm not handling archives any more. The search is underway for someone on Bitnet to do it. Anyone interested? Contact jrd@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com It's fairly easy. All the hard work has been taken care of by me in starting up the archives in the first place. (3) The server now is telling me that the filelist isn't available! I don't have a clue what's going on here, and no time to track it down. --Jim PS: Being Bitnet archive maintainer DOES NOT require access to the Internet. John Dunning (the aforementioned JRD) will mail the files to you, and you mail them to LISTSERV. The reason we need someone on Bitnet is because we haven't been able to get LISTSERV to recognize Internet addresses as valid list-owner addresses. It's apparently the length, again... :-( PPS: The column with the V's and F's and whatever... It has to do with the organization of the files on the IBM. It means nothing