karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (02/21/89)
I've been getting too many requests for this in mail, so here it is
for all who might need it. And for anyone who tried to pick up Kermit
or one of the GNU buttons in the last week or so, we have corrected a
filenaming convention glitch.
If you're using this more than a day or so after posting, please get a
fresh copy as per the instructions - this changes a *lot*.
--Karl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob 24885 Feb 20 14:13 GNU.how-to-get
This file (osu-cis!~/GNU.how-to-get) describes how to get the
following software from osu-cis via semi-anonymous UUCP:
GNU Emacs GNU Bison GNU Chess GNU Assembler
GNU Awk GNU Debugger MIT C Scheme GNU /bin Utilities
GNU C Compiler G++ & GDB+ GNU Pins & Art Compress
Patch The Internet Requests for Comment (RFCs) and IDEAS
News RN NNTP Gnews
Pathalias-V9 Smail2.5 Mush Ispell
Mg2a PC-RRN RCS GCC VMS Bootstrap
Dist/Metaconfig NNstat STDWIN Proxy ARP
Xcomm The GNU Emacs Lisp Manual GNU Diff
GNU Grep GNUS Ghostscript Ada support for GNU Emacs
Appletalk stuff GNU Tar Spaf's Worm Report Phone
GNU Sed Kermit Oops Franz' GNU Emacs interface
tcsh GNU Make
The Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State
University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products (and others)
via UUCP only as a redistribution service. Anything found here is
only and exactly as it would be found on the indicated Internet hosts,
were one to acquire it via anonymous FTP (like we did); or else saved
it as it flowed past on the Usenet source distribution newsgroups.
OSU CIS takes no responsibility for the contents of any of the
distributions described in this message. See the Distribution
document (emacs/etc/DISTRIB) and the GNU Emacs General Public License
(emacs/etc/COPYING).
How to reach osu-cis via uucp
===============================
Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-cis:
#
# Micom switch 2400 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-3124 "" \r\c Name? osu-cis RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon
#
# Micom switch 1200 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3112 "" \r\c Name? osu-cis RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon
#
# direct 2400 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 "" \n in:--in: Uanon
#
# direct 1200 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1152 "" \n in:--in: Uanon
#
Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. Note that there is no
limit concerning what hours of the day you may call. Please use the
Micom switch ports whenever you can - that's why they're listed first.
Where the files are
===================
These items exist on osu-cis for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form, exactly what you find on the indicated hosts in the
specified origin files. Most items are cut into pieces for the sake
of uucp sanity. This separation helps if your uucp session fails
midway through a conversation; you need restart only with the part
that failed, rather than the whole beast. The pieces are typically
named with a root word, followed by letter pairs like "aa" and "bj,"
meaning that the pieces are all named with the root word, followed by
a dash and the suffixes indicated, using the letters inclusive between
the two limits. All pieces but the last are 100,000 bytes long, and
the fragmentary last piece has some smaller size.
Most of the file names you'll find here are much shorter than the name
of the corresponding source file, because the sources come from
Berkeley systems and osu-cis is only a 3B2/400 running SysVr3.0.
We've tried to maintain informative names at the expense of
readability.
GNU Pins & Art
--------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/button.3.00.shar as of 16 Feb 1989.
File is /u/public/button3.00shar [one piece], 27,873 bytes long.
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/button.2.00.shar as of 16 Jun 1988.
File is /u/public/button2.00shar [one piece], 22,057 bytes long.
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/button88.02.ps as of 25 Feb 1988.
File is /u/public/button88.02.ps [one piece], 6,107 bytes long.
GNU Emacs
---------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/edist.tar-18.52.Z on 4 Sep 1988.
Root is /u/public/emacs/emacs-18.52-??, pieces aa-bq [43 pieces].
Part -bq is 40,410 bytes long.
There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond
the current osu-cis `base' emacs distribution (18.52 now). Diffs
available in /u/public/emacs are:
ediff18.40-41Z 79,535 bytes
ediff18.41-44Z 118,183
ediff18.44-45Z 225,323
ediff18.45-46Z 35,702
ediff18.46-47Z 19,382
ediff18.47-48Z 115,927
ediff18.48-49Z 24,326
ediff18.49-50Z 577,167
ediff18.50-51Z 468,899
ediff18.51-52Z 545,949
Note that diff files frequently have new files or instructions at
their top, and that it may be necessary to cut a diff file into as
many pieces as there are directories in which patches were made; this
depends largely on the recency of your patch program.
Chris Maio (chris@columbia.edu)'s NeWS (1.0 and 1.1) support for GNU
Emacs (18.49 through 18.52) is available separately.
Source is columbia.edu:/pub/ps-emacs.tar.Z, as of Sep 4.
File is /u/public/emacs/ps-emacs.tar.Z size is 36,423 bytes.
Patches from Dana Chee (dana@bellcore.com) and the x11-emacs list for
better X11 support under 18.52 are available separately.
File is /u/public/emacs/18.52-X11R2.Z, size is 7,888 bytes.
The X11R2 distribution of the X11 port of the X10 XMenu library is in
/u/public/emacs/oldXMenu.tar.Z as one file of 45,438 bytes.
Leonard Zubkoff's Apollo support for 18.52 is available separately.
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/lnz/apollo-emacs.tar.Z as of 25 Nov.
Root is /u/public/emacs/apollo.tar.Z-?, pieces a-f, -f is 78,301 bytes.
Nelson Beebe's VMS Dired patches for 18.52 are available separately.
Source is science.utah.edu:DIRED-FIXES.SHAR?_OF_3 as of 26 Nov.
Root is /u/public/emacs/vms-dired-?of3, pieces 1-3, sizes 12,014,
16,819, and 9,394. These are compressed DCL archives.
Franz Inc.'s support for their Lisp is available separately.
Source is ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/fi/gnudist_1_3.tar.Z as of 17 Feb.
File is /u/public/emacs/franz/franz1.3.tar.Z, one file, 158,381 bytes.
GDB (the GNU Debugger)
---
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gdb.tar-3.1.Z as of 31 Jan.
Root is /u/public/gdb/gdb3.1-??, pieces aa-ah [8 pieces].
Part -ah is 29,553 bytes long.
Diffs available are:
gdbdi3.0-3.1.Z 109,563
GNU Bison
---------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/bison.tar.Z as of Nov 7.
File is /u/public/bison/bison.tar.Z, size is 206,059 bytes.
MIT C Scheme
------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/scheme/dist.tar.Z, MIT C Scheme v6.1.1
as of 8 Dec 1987 04:21.
Root is /u/public/scheme/scheme6.1.1-??, pieces aa-au [21 pieces].
Part -au is 43,751 bytes long.
GNU Chess
---------
Source is venera.isi.edu:pub/gnuchess.tar.Z as of 17 Jan.
Root is /u/public/chess/chess.tar.Z-??, pieces aa-ad.
Part -ad is 63,081 bytes long.
GNU C Compiler
--------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gcc.tar-1.33.Z as of 1 Feb.
Root is /u/public/gcc/gcc-1.33-??, pieces aa-ax [24 pieces].
Part -ax is 11,842 bytes long.
There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond
the current osu-cis `base' gcc distribution (1.33 now). Diffs
available are:
gcdiff1.19-20Z 160,245
gcdiff1.20-21Z 106,823
gcdiff1.21-22Z 87,297
gcdiff1.22-23Z 210,287
gcdiff1.23-24Z 40,440
gcdiff1.24-25Z 192,895
gcdiff1.25-26Z 162,505
gcdiff1.26-27Z 98,859
gcdiff1.27-28Z 74,119
gcdiff1.28-29Z 316,363
gcdiff1.29-30Z 35,660
gcdiff1.30-31Z 63,593
gcdiff1.31-32Z 204,325
gcdiff1.32-33Z 306,702
GCC requires Bison, since it uses a feature (@n) of Bison that's not
in Yacc. Remember to pick that up too - see the instructions above.
GDB, the GNU Debugger for C, is available separately - see above.
Be aware that current releases of gcc comment (in the source) that a
version of Bison not older than Sep 8 1988 is required for correct
operation. Such a version is now in place on osu-cis.
I have been asked to continue to emphasize that "although ... GCC is
heading toward reliability, it is still a test release that generates
a few new bug reports a week... Generally people shouldn't yet use
GCC except to help debug it, or if they are interested in porting it
or writing new front ends for it, until it becomes more stable." The
compiler will be considered non-beta when it has successfully produced
a full running UNIX system from sources.
GNU C Compiler (VMS bootstrapping stuff)
--------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/vms-gcc.tar.Z as of 5 June.
Root is /u/public/gcc/vms-gcc-??, pieces aa-ag [7 pieces].
Part -ag is 93,930 bytes long.
GNU C++ Compiler
----------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/g++.tar-1.31.0.Z as of 15 Dec.
Root is /u/public/gcc/g++-1.31.0Z-??, pieces aa-ah [8 pieces].
Part -ah is 23,149 bytes long.
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/g++.diffs-1.31.0-1.32.0.Z as of 31 Dec.
Root is /u/public/gcc/g+dif1.31-1.32, one piece, 86,205 bytes.
See also the file new-sparc.tar.Z, a set of Sun4-specific files.
Dated same as G++ 1.31. File is /u/public/gcc/new-sparc.tarZ, 87,013
bytes.
GNU C++ Library
---------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/libg++-1.32.0.tar.Z as of 11 Jan.
Root is /u/public/gcc/libg++1.32.0-?, parts a-f [6 pieces].
Part -f is 26,135 bytes long.
GNU C++ Debugger
----------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gdb+.tar-2.8.1.Z as of 16 Dec.
Root is /u/public/gcc/gdb+-2.8.1Z-??, parts aa-af [6 pieces].
Part -af is 65,400 bytes long.
GNU Assembler
-------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gas-dist.tar.Z as of 9 Jan.
Root is /u/public/gas/gas.tar.Z-??, pieces aa-ad [4 pieces].
Part -ad is 75,427 bytes long.
GNU Awk
-------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gawk.tar-2.02.Z of Dec 27 18:02.
File is /u/public/gawk/gawk2.02.tar.Z, single file, 157,098 bytes.
GNU /bin Utilities
------------------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/binutils.tar.Z as of 29 Dec.
Root is /u/public/binutils/binutils.tar.Z, single file, which is
169,266 bytes long.
Stuff here includes: Makefile, README, a.out.{encap,gnu}.h, ar.c,
gmon.h, gprof.{c,texinfo}, ld.c, nm.c, objdump.c, ranlib.[ch],
robotussin.h, size.c, stab.{def,h}, strip.c, and symseg.h.
GNU Make
--------
Source is alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu:/gp/gnu/make/make.tar-3.38.Z on 19 Feb 16:09.
Root is /u/public/make/make-3.38-??, pieces aa-ae [5 pieces].
Part -ae is 42,724 bytes long.
GNU Diff
--------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/diff.tar.Z as of 26 Oct 1988.
File is /u/public/diff/diff.tar.Z, single file, 94,815 bytes.
GNU Grep
--------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/grep-1.2.tar.Z as of 13 Dec.
File is /u/public/grep/grep-1.2.tar.Z, single file, 93,799 bytes.
GNU Tar
-------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/tar-1.04.tar.Z as of 24 Jan.
File is /u/public/tar/tar-1.04.tar.Z, single file, 146,008 bytes.
GNU Sed
-------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/sed-1.01.tar.Z as of 26 Jan.
File is /u/public/sed/sed-1.01.tar.Z, single file, 51,200 bytes.
GNU Emacs Lisp Manual
---------------------
Source is a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/gnuemacs/elisp/README as of 28 Sep.
File is /u/public/emacs/lisp-manual/README.Z, one piece, 1,310 bytes.
Source is a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/gnuemacs/elisp/elisp.tar.Z as of 14 Sep.
Root is /u/public/emacs/lisp-manual/elisp.tar.Z-??, pieces aa-ac [3 pieces].
Part -ac is 75,808 bytes long.
Source is a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/gnuemacs/elisp/elisp.dvi.Z as of 14 Sep.
Root is /u/public/emacs/lisp-manual/elisp.dvi.Z-??, pieces aa-ad [4 pieces].
Part -ad is 41,295 bytes long.
Source is a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/gnuemacs/elisp/index.dvi.Z as of 14 Sep.
File is /u/public/emacs/lisp-manual/index.dvi.Z, one piece, 34,882 bytes.
Source is a.cs.uiuc.edu:pub/gnuemacs/elisp/index.texinfo as of 5 Oct.
File is /u/public/emacs/lisp-manual/index.texinfo, one piece, 133 bytes.
Ready-to-print PostScript versions are in elisp.ps.Z-a[a-f] and
index.ps.Z, which total 592,629 and 60,025 bytes, respectively.
Ghostscript
-----------
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/ghostscript.tar.Z as of 10 Oct.
Root is /u/public/ghostscript/ghostscript-??, pieces aa-ad [4 pieces].
Part -ad is 50,629 bytes long.
Ada support for GNU Emacs
-------------------------
Source is spam.istc.sri.com:pub/gnu/gnu-ada-1.05.tar.Z of Oct 18.
File is /u/public/emacs/ada/gnu-ada-1.05, one file, 123,331 bytes.
This is a compressed tar file.
Gnews
-----
Source is ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/gnews-2.0-tar.Z as of 21 Oct.
File is /u/public/gnews/gnews2.0-tar.Z, one piece.
Size is 229,359 bytes.
GNUS
----
File is /u/public/emacs/gnus/gnus-3.10.Z, one file, 76,407 bytes.
This is a compressed tar file.
Ispell
------
Sources are from celray.cs.yale.edu as of 18 May 1988.
Root is /u/public/ispell/ and contains the following:
dict.191.Z 74,165
ispell.shar.Z 108,435
ispell.el 22,712
Oops
----
An object-oriented programming system.
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/oops-v2r2.tar.Z as of 16 Dec.
Root is /u/public/oops/oopsv2r2-??, pieces aa-ae [5 pieces].
Part -ae is 34,189 bytes long.
Mg2a
----
GNU Emacs-like text editor, `micro' in size and origin.
Sources are from comp.sources.misc, Volume 3.
Root is /u/public/mg/mg2a.??.Z, pieces 01-15 [15 pieces] in varying sizes.
PC-RRN
------
Syd Weinstein's port of rrn to the IBM-PC running MS-DOS with an
Excelan card.
Source is from dsinc!~/rrn.[123].tar.Z.
Files are /u/public/pcrrn/pcrrn.[123].tar.Z, sizes 58423, 73207, and
29167.
RCS
---
Source is arthur.cs.purdue.edu:pub/rcs/rcs.tar.Z.
File is /u/public/rcs/rcs.tar.Z, size 193,473.
NOTE: Your first responsibility on obtaining and unpacking this
software is to read the README and READ_ME files contained within it.
The RCS system constitutes (as I now understand it) shareware; it
contains no proprietary code, but the copyright holder (the author,
Walter Tichy) requires you to register your usage of the system with
him. Questions should be addressed to the author.
Dist/Metaconfig
---------------
Larry Wall's `dist' package (2.0, patchlevel 2), including metaconfig.
Source is jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov:/pub/dist/kits@0/dist.kit[1-7].Z.
Files are /u/public/dist/dist.kit[1-7].Z [7 pieces], varying sizes,
2-24Kb.
Nnstat
------
Network monitoring tool for Suns.
Source is venera.isi.edu:/pub/NNStat.tar.Z as of Apr 4 10:25.
Files are /u/public/nnstat/nnstat.tar.Z-[a-f] [6 pieces], part -f is
15,784 bytes long.
STDWIN
------
Standard window interface for different systems.
Source is gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/stdwin/* as of 29 Jul.
Files are /u/public/stdwin/*
ABOUT.Z 7,426
README.Z 1,395
alfa.tar.Z 28,322
any.tar.Z 91,791
atari.tar.Z 30,977
bed.tar.Z 13,970
doc.old.Z 20,648
dpv.tar.Z 29,598
mac.tar.Z 38,141
man.tar.Z 26,115
mg1.tar.Z 49,747
miniedit.tar.Z 21,561
msdos.tar.Z 18,110
qview.tar.Z 12,690
report.ms.Z 22,875
termcap.tar.Z 22,492
x11.tar.Z 50,268
Proxy ARP daemon
----------------
Helps non-subnet-wise hosts live in a subnetted environment.
Source from Haavard Eidnes (he@idt.unit.no), Release 2 of 25 Sep 88.
File is /u/public/proxyarp/proxyarp.sharZ, one file, 15,959 bytes.
Compress
--------
Source is comp.sources.unix Volume 2, Issues 27, 28, and 29, and we
redistribute it here as a convenience to GNU-getters who might not
have it otherwise.
Root is /u/public/compress/ and consists of the following
(uncompressed) `shar' archives:
compress4.0.0 4,456
compress4.0.1 50,346
compress4.0.2 33,203
Patch
-----
Source is Patch version 2.0, Patchlevel 12, as distributed over
comp.sources.unix plus patches found in comp.sources.bugs.
File is /u/public/patch/patch.tar.Z, one file, 69,689 bytes.
News
----
Source is Usenet news software 2.11, plus patches 1 through 14, as
distributed over comp.sources.unix plus patches found in
comp.sources.bugs.
Source code root is /u/public/news/2.11news.??.Z, pieces 01-20 [20
pieces].
Patches' root is /u/public/news/Patch??.Z, pieces 01-14 [14 pieces].
To build a current news system, get all the files, unpack 2.11news.*,
and apply each of the patches in turn.
RN
--
Source is Rn v4.3.1.4 patchlevel 40, as found in an assortment of
places including but certainly not limited to comp.sources.unix and
comp.sources.bugs.
Root is /u/public/rn/rn.tar.Z-??, pieces aa-ac [3 pieces].
Part -ac is 37,645 bytes long.
NNTP
----
Source is ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/nntp1.5.tar.Z.
File is /u/public/nntp/nntp1.5.tar.Z, size is 199,849
Pathalias
---------
Source is comp.sources.unix, Volume 12.
Files are /u/public/pathalias/pathalias9.[12].Z, sizes are 27294 and
28968, respectively. These are compressed shar files.
A newer version (source: citi.umich.edu:/pub/honey/pathalias.Z) is
also available as a compressed shar file.
File is /u/public/pathalias/honey/pathalias.Z. Size is 53726.
Smail
-----
Source is comp.sources.unix, Volume 11.
Files are /u/public/smail/smail.{doc,src}.Z, sizes are 114275 and
52140, respectively. These are compressed shar files.
Mush
----
Mail User's Shell, source is comp.sources.unix, Volume 14. Files are
/u/public/mush/mush-??.Z, pieces 01-14, plus .../patch1.Z,
.../upgrade-6.2.Z, and mush6.3-[1234].Z (the upgrades to version 6.3).
Xcomm
-----
Xcomm 2.2 is a communications program for SysV machines which provides
Xmodem and Quick B Protocol file transfers plus a script language.
Source is CompuServe's UNIX Forum, DL3, XC22DC.SHZ and XC22SC.SHZ, plus
patches (already applied), repackaged as a compressed tar file.
File is /u/public/xcomm/xcomm.tar.Z, size 58165.
Phone
-----
Root is /u/public/phone. Files are phone-1.01.Z (66,145 bytes, a
compressed tar file) and phdif1.00-01Z (9,991 bytes, a compressed shar
file of diffs).
Tcsh
----
Patches to give the 4.3BSD csh command line editing, completion, etc.
File is /u/public/tcsh/tcsh.tar.Z, one file, 194,061 bytes.
CAP Version 5.0
---------------
Sources from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu.
Root is /u/public/macintosh/appletalk/cap50.
Files are cap50-??, parts aa-af where part -af is 59,267 bytes long.
The distribution is a tar archive, compressed and split.
Patches are cpr.000?, patches 1-5. These are context diffs.
Spaf's Worm Report
------------------
Source is arthur.cs.purdue.edu:pub/reports/TR823.PS.Z as of Dec 10 13:31.
File is /u/public/worm/report.ps.Z, size is 114,673 bytes [one piece].
Changes from the Nov 29th edition are in TR823.errata, 2405 bytes.
KIP for 1/88 and 6/88
---------------------
Sources from sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Root is /u/public/macintosh/appletalk.
Files are kip0188.shar.Z (127,997 bytes), kip0688.notes (3,018 bytes),
and kip0688.shar.Z (140,725 bytes).
Kermit
------
C-Kermit version 4e(070) from cunixc.columbia.edu.
Root is /u/public/kermit/4e070.tar.Z-a[a-r], 18 pieces of a compressed
tar file.
Part -ar is 5,220 bytes long.
MS-Kermit 2.32, ready to boot on an MS-DOS machine, is in /u/public/kermit/
mskerm.bwr.Z 10,221 bytes
mskerm.doc.Z 133,615
mskerm.hlp.Z 8,796
msr232.upd.Z 12,475
msvibm.boo.Z 87,323
RFCs
----
Various documents (Requests for Comments) related to the Internet are
available here: the complete set of RFCs found on sri-nic.arpa.
Root is /u/public/rfc/rfcXXX.Z, where XXX is the number of the RFC and
the set available includes:
3 5 6 10 16 17 18 19 21 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 149 179 189 407 425 527
542 561 567 569 580 599 602 606 607 614 615 617 618 620 624 626 636
640 643 644 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 660 662 663 672 674 678
681 683 684 685 687 689 691 695 698 699 700 701 704 705 706 707 708
713 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732
733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749
750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766
767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783
784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800
801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817
818 819 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832 833 834
835 836 837 838 839 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 847 848 849 850 851
852 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869
870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886
887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 900 901 902 903
904 905 906 907 907 908 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919
920 921 921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935
936 937 938 939 940 941 942 943 944 945 946 947 948 949 950 951 952
953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969
970 971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 982 983 984 985 986
987 988 989 990 992 993 994 995 996 998 999 1000 1001 1002 1003 1004
1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018
1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 1030 1031 1032
1032 1033 1034 1035 1036 1036 1037 1038 1039 1040 1040 1041 1041 1042
1043 1044 1045 1046 1046 1047 1047 1048 1048 1049 1049 1050 1050 1051
1051 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056 1057 1057 1058 1058 1059 1062 1063 1064
1065 1066 1067 1068 1071 1072 1073 1074 1075 1076 1077 1078 1079 1080
1081 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086 1087
Also in /u/public/rfc/, the files arpa-internet-, assigned-numbe,
author-instruc, hedrick-intro., hedrick-admin., internet-numbe,
rfc-index.Z, and rfc-sets.Z contain documentation about the Internet
and the RFCs. (All of these files are compressed. Some of the names
are truncated versions of the original names from sri-nic, because of
SysV's file naming deficiencies. What the heck; osu-cis was a gift.)
IDEAS
-----
The Internet Design, Engineering and Analysis noteS (IDEAS) are
available here, as found on sri-nic.arpa.
Root is /u/public/idea/idea00??-??.Z, where ??-?? is one of
02-00 03-00 04-00 04-01 05-00 06-00 07-00 08-00 09-00 10-00 11-00
11-01 12-00 13-00 14-00 15-00 16-00 17-00 18-00 19-00 20-00 21-00
22-00 23-00 24-00
The index (also compressed) is called .../idea-index-abs.
What to do with it all - building Emacs as an example
======================
Pick a night when you can afford to be at the office late. {:-)}
Arrange to have the files uucp'd to your site. Copying the complete
set of Emacs slices will take on the order of 5 hours at 2400 bps,
correspondingly more at 1200. Your mileage will definitely vary, by
as much as 20% on either side of that (intentionally vague) estimate.
By way of comparison, a recent Emacs 18.50 transfer at 2400bps to
Portland, Oregon was reported to cost about $42.00, weekend rates. If
you successfully UUCP anything from osu-cis, please send us mail
describing any problems you had, and (if possible) an estimate of how
long it took you and at what baud rate, so that we can keep these
figures up to date.
Note: Do not request the files to be transferred using a command like
% uucp osu-cis!/u/public/emacs/emacs-18.52-\* /some/local/directory
because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux*
to run a uucp command on osu-cis; it will fail for security reasons.
You must issue many uucp commands: one for each file in each
distribution you want, plus one for each diff file you want. They
will all get queued and executed in as few UUCP connections as
possible.
After the files have all showed up, you should extract the full
distribution of GNU Emacs thusly:
cat emacs-18.52-?? | zcat | tar xvf -
Voila`, you have GNU Emacs, ready to build and cause you both joy and
pain for the rest of your life. The other stuff available here is
unpacked similarly.
The `zcat' mentioned above is part of the `compress' distribution,
which you will have to get if you don't have it yet. Everything that
we distribute (except `compress' itself) is compressed with a 16-bit
Lempel-Ziv scheme. Some computers (notably those based on Intel
family microprocessors) are unable for memory segmentation reasons to
handle compression with a scheme higher than 12 bits. Since we can't
afford the space and time to provide both 12- and 16-bit distributions
via this mechanism, if you need things in a 12-bit compression format,
you will need to find a cooperative friend with a full 32-bit machine
to uncompress the distribution, and possibly recompress it for you in
12-bit format.
Miscellany
==========
This file of instructions exists as the file ~/GNU.how-to-get, and is
updated as new distributions and diffs come out and are made
available. This happens much more frequently than the full set of
instructions are posted to comp.sources.d, so get it first to be sure
what you are getting later in each night's UUCP transfer.
Unfortunately, the worst case might be that (e.g.) if you only get
part of a full distribution one night and a new version arrives during
the day, you might get some of the part-*s for the old version and not
know that the rest of your part-*s are from the new one. Get this
file to be sure.
Someone invariably has problems with uucp. Feel free to write us some
mail; we'll be happy to help as much as we can, though that is usually
limited by distance and mail turnaround time.
Cheers,
Bob Sutterfield Karl Kleinpaste
osu-cis!bob osu-cis!karl
bob@cis.ohio-state.edu karl@cis.ohio-state.edu