bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (03/29/87)
The Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State
University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products via UUCP
only as a redistribution service. Anything found here is only and
exactly as it would be found on prep.ai.mit.edu, were one to acquire
it via anonymous FTP. OSU CIS can take no responsibility for the
contents of any of the distributions described here. See the
Distribution document (emacs/etc/DISTRIB) and the GNU Emacs General
Public License (emacs/etc/COPYING).
How to reach osu-eddie via uucp
-------------------------------
Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie:
#
# direct 2400 bps - two working now (10-Feb-1987)
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: gnumacs
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5112 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5113 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#
# Baker Micom switch 2400 bps - working (9-Feb-1987)
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-3124 "" \d\r\c Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#
# direct 1200 bps - broken right now (9-Feb-87)
#
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-7709 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#
# Baker Micom switch 1200 bps
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3070 Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#
# Hitchcock Micom switch 1200 bps - all broken right now (22-Mar-1987)
#
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1152 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1153 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: gnumacs
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1154 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: gnumacs
Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. The various things to
substitute for LOGIN will be described below. This is a time-
restricted login, that is, osu-eddie will not allow logging in via
this name outside the time period 10pm-7am, in order to keep our few
dialins and ports available for primarily local access, and our CPU
free for primarily local, departmental system users.
This restriction will likely be lifted when osu-eddie (a seriously
overloaded VAX-11/780) is replaced as the primary UUCP and news feed
for Ohio State, and most of Columbus that isn't Bell/ATT. The
replacement (a 3b2/400) is waiting for time to install it.
Where the files are
-------------------
GNU Emacs
---------
To get GNU Emacs, substitute `GNU-emacs' for `LOGIN' in the lines
above.
GNU Emacs exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form, exactly what you find on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file
/u2/emacs/edist.tar-18.41.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut
into 34 parts, as the set of files
~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.41.Z-part-[aa-bh]. The first 33 parts are
each exactly 100,000 bytes long, followed by the trailing 34th which
is 96,021 bytes long. The separation helps to keep long distance uucp
sane, so that if it fails midway through a conversation, you need
restart only with the part that failed, rather than the whole beast.
There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond
the current osu-eddie `base' distribution (18.41 right now). Current
diffs available:
diff-18.30-18.31.Z 84,713 bytes
diff-18.31-18.32.Z 171,224 bytes
diff-18.32-18.33.Z 55,633 bytes
diff-18.33-18.35.Z 140,149 bytes
diff-18.35-18.36.Z 98,847 bytes
diff-18.36-18.37.Z 238,653 bytes
diff-18.37-18.38.Z 103,965 bytes
diff-18.38-18.39.Z 176,494 bytes
diff-18.39-18.40.Z 51,517 bytes
diff-18.40-18.41.Z 79,535 bytes
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.
[Special for 18.36 patching: I had such problems with diff-18.35-18.36
that I had to go to prep and get fresh copies of a few files, namely
etc/yow.lines and lisp/{flame,scribe,x-menu}.el in order to get emacs
to patch, byte-recompile, and make. Those files are also available
individually, named as ~/gnumacs.dist/x-menu.el and the like. When we
get a fresh, complete distribution (probably when 18.37 happens) these
will no longer be necessary, but will stay around as long as
diff-18.35-18.36.Z is here. -BS]
[Special for 18.38 patching: In response to rms' reports of bugs in
the distribution, I also got the files buffer.c, fileio.c, and xmenu.c
separately from the earlier diff- distribution. They are in the same
~/gnumacs.dist directory as all the rest. -BS]
Sorry, there do not exist diff files to go from 17.xx to v18. We have
also removed all old v17 diffs in the interest of saving disc space.
Older v18 diffs are about to suffer the same fate, as are the
[Special] single files described above.
GNU Bison
---------
To get GNU Bison, substitute `GNU-bison' for `LOGIN' in the lines
above.
GNU Bison exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /u2/emacs/bison
as of March 29, 1987. It is in ~/gnubison.dist/gnubison.tar.Z, which
is 75,851 bytes long.
GNU C Scheme
------------
To get GNU C Scheme, substitute `GNU-scheme' for `LOGIN' in the lines
above.
GNU C Scheme exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in
compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file
/u2/scheme/dist.tar.Z, as of March 29, 1987. It is in
~/gnuscheme.dist/gnuscheme.tar.Z-part-[aa-??] where all but the last
are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-?? is ??,??? bytes long.
(As of noon, March 29, it isn't there yet. When I manage to get the
whole tar file FTPd from prep, compressed, and sliced into 100K
chunks, I will change this file, though likely not repost it
immediately. If you want GNU Scheme, please either get this file (as
described below) or send me mail to find out its status. -- BS)
GNU Chess
---------
To get GNU Chess, substitue `GNU-chess' for `LOGIN' in the lines
above.
GNU Chess exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form just as on venera.isi.edu in the file
/usr/ftp/pub/gnuchess.tar, version 3.19.87. It is in
~/gnuchess.dist/gnuchess.tar.Z-part-[aa-ad], where all but the last
are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-ad is 21,253 bytes long.
GNU C Compiler
--------------
To get the GNU C Compiler (gcc), substitute `GNU-gcc' for `LOGIN' in
the lines above.
The GNU C Compiler (gcc) exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes
in compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory
/u2/emacs/gcc. It is in ~/gcc.dist/gcc.tar.Z-part-[aa-aj], where all
but the last are each 100,000 bytes long and part-aj is 54,128 bytes
long.
You also ought to pick up the file ~/gcc.dist/gcc-install-bugs, which
is a snapshot of prep:/u2/emacs/gcc-install-bugs as of 10:16am on
March 29, 1987, and read it before you attempt installation and use of
gcc. I am asked to emphasize that gcc is still very, very beta-test
in nature, and the purpose for its distribution is to involve the
community in finding and fixing those beta-bugs.
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' part-?s will take on the order of 7 hours at 1200 bps,
correspondingly less at 2400. Your mileage will definitely vary, by
as much as 25% on either side of those estimates. If you successfully
UUCP anything from osu-eddie, 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-eddie!~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.41.Z-part-\* /some/local/directory
because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux*
to run a uucp command on osu-eddie; 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 edist.tar-18.41.Z-part-?? | zcat | tar xvf -
Voila`, you have GNU Emacs, ready to build and cause you both joy and
pain for the rest of your life. Your first joy with it is to patch it
up to level with the current distribution. The other GNU software
available here is unpacked similarly.
Miscellany
----------
This file of instructions exists as the file ~/GNU.instructions, and
is occasionally updated as new distributions and diffs come out and
are made available. This is much more frequent than the full set of
instructions are posted to comp.sources.d, so get it first to be sure
what you are getting later.
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.
Cheers,
Bob Sutterfield: Karl Kleinpaste:
osu-eddie!bob osu-eddie!karl
bob@ohio-state.arpa karl@ohio-state.arpa
--
Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cb{osgd,att}!osu-eddie!bob
(614)292-7348 (office) or -0915 (operators) or -7325 (answering machine)bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (03/31/87)
In article <3393@osu-eddie.UUCP> bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > (a bunch of stuff very much like this posting ...) (...important details of which were incorrect, and which are hopefully corrected here. I decided to re-post the whole beast in the interests of making sure everyone has a single, coherent set of instructions. Sorry for the inconvenience!) The Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products 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). OSU CIS can take 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-eddie via uucp =============================== Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie: # # direct 2400 bps - two working now (10-Feb-1987) # osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5112 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD #osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5113 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # # Baker Micom switch 2400 bps - working (9-Feb-1987) # osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-3124 "" \d\r\c Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # # direct 1200 bps - broken right now (9-Feb-87) # #osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-7709 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # # Baker Micom switch 1200 bps # osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3070 Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # # Hitchcock Micom switch 1200 bps - all broken right now (22-Mar-1987) # #osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1152 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD #osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1153 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD #osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1154 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. The various things to substitute for LOGIN and PASSWORD will be discussed below. This is a time-restricted login; that is, osu-eddie will not allow logging in via this name outside the time period 10pm-7am, in order to keep our few dialins and ports available for primarily local access, and our CPU free for primarily local, departmental system users. This restriction will likely be lifted when osu-eddie (a seriously overloaded VAX-11/780) is replaced as the primary UUCP and news feed for Ohio State, and most of Columbus that isn't Bell/ATT. The replacement (a 3b2/400) is waiting for time to install it. Where the files are =================== GNU Emacs --------- To get GNU Emacs, substitute `GNUemacs' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. GNU Emacs exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form, exactly what you find on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file /u2/emacs/edist.tar-18.41.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut into 34 parts, as the set of files ~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.41.Z-part-[aa-bh]. The first 33 parts are each exactly 100,000 bytes long, followed by the trailing 34th which is 96,021 bytes long. The separation helps to keep long distance uucp sane, so that if it fails midway through a conversation, you need restart only with the part that failed, rather than the whole beast. There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond the current osu-eddie `base' distribution (18.41 right now). Current diffs available: diff-18.30-18.31.Z 84,713 bytes diff-18.31-18.32.Z 171,224 bytes diff-18.32-18.33.Z 55,633 bytes diff-18.33-18.35.Z 140,149 bytes diff-18.35-18.36.Z 98,847 bytes diff-18.36-18.37.Z 238,653 bytes diff-18.37-18.38.Z 103,965 bytes diff-18.38-18.39.Z 176,494 bytes diff-18.39-18.40.Z 51,517 bytes diff-18.40-18.41.Z 79,535 bytes 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. [Special for 18.36 patching: I had such problems with diff-18.35-18.36 that I had to go to prep and get fresh copies of a few files, namely etc/yow.lines and lisp/{flame,scribe,x-menu}.el in order to get emacs to patch, byte-recompile, and make. Those files are also available individually, named as ~/gnumacs.dist/x-menu.el and the like. When we get a fresh, complete distribution (probably when 18.37 happens) these will no longer be necessary, but will stay around as long as diff-18.35-18.36.Z is here. -BS] [Special for 18.38 patching: In response to rms' reports of bugs in the distribution, I also got the files buffer.c, fileio.c, and xmenu.c separately from the earlier diff- distribution. They are in the same ~/gnumacs.dist directory as all the rest. -BS] Sorry, there do not exist diff files to go from 17.xx to v18. We have also removed all old v17 diffs in the interest of saving disc space. Older v18 diffs are about to suffer the same fate for the same reason, as are the [Special] single files described above. GNU Bison --------- To get GNU Bison, substitute `GNUbison' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. GNU Bison exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /u2/emacs/bison as of March 29, 1987. It is in ~/gnubison.dist/gnubison.tar.Z, which is 75,851 bytes long. MIT C Scheme ------------ To get MIT C Scheme, substitute `GNUscheme' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. MIT C Scheme is distributed by the GNU Project, as another free software system. It exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file /u2/scheme/dist.tar.Z (that file created January 3, 1987). It is in ~/mitscheme.dist/mitscheme.tar.Z-part-[aa-an] where all but the last are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-an is 87,229 bytes long. GNU Chess --------- To get GNU Chess, substitue `GNUchess' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. GNU Chess exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form just as on venera.isi.edu in the file /usr/ftp/pub/gnuchess.tar, version 3.19.87. It is in ~/gnuchess.dist/gnuchess.tar.Z-part-[aa-ad], where all but the last are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-ad is 21,253 bytes long. GNU C Compiler -------------- To get the GNU C Compiler (gcc), substitute `GNUgcc' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. The GNU C Compiler (gcc) exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /u2/emacs/gcc. It is in ~/gcc.dist/gcc.tar.Z-part-[aa-aj], where all but the last are each 100,000 bytes long and part-aj is 54,128 bytes long. You also ought to pick up the file ~/gcc.dist/gcc-install-bugs, which is a snapshot of prep:/u2/emacs/gcc-install-bugs as of 10:16am on March 29, 1987, and read it before you attempt installation and use of gcc. I am asked to emphasize that gcc is still very, very beta-test in nature, and the purpose for its distribution is to involve the community in finding and fixing those beta-bugs. 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' part-?s will take on the order of 7 hours at 1200 bps, correspondingly less at 2400. Your mileage will definitely vary, by as much as 25% on either side of those estimates. If you successfully UUCP anything from osu-eddie, 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-eddie!~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.41.Z-part-\* /some/local/directory because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux* to run a uucp command on osu-eddie; 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 edist.tar-18.41.Z-part-?? | zcat | tar xvf - Voila`, you have GNU Emacs, ready to build and cause you both joy and pain for the rest of your life. Your first joy with it is to patch it up to level with the current distribution. The other GNU software available here is unpacked similarly. Miscellany ========== This file of instructions exists as the file ~/GNU.instructions, and is occasionally updated as new distributions and diffs come out and are made available. This happenss 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. 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. Cheers, Bob Sutterfield: Karl Kleinpaste: osu-eddie!bob osu-eddie!karl bob@ohio-state.arpa karl@ohio-state.arpa -- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cb{osgd,att}!osu-eddie!bob (614)292-7348 (office) or -0915 (operators) or -7325 (answering machine)
bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (06/18/87)
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob>
The Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State
University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products 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). 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-eddie via uucp
===============================
Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie:
#
# direct 2400 bps - three lines on rotary, they answer @1200 too (Jun 4)
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#
# Micom switch 2400 bps - working (Feb 9)
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-3124 "" \d\r\c Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#
# Micom switch 1200 bps
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3070 Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#
Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. The various things to
substitute for LOGIN and PASSWORD will be discussed below. This is a
time-restricted login; that is, osu-eddie will not allow logging in
via this name outside the time period 10pm-7am, in order to keep our
few dialins and ports available for primarily local access, and our
CPU free for primarily local, departmental system users.
This restriction will likely be lifted when osu-eddie (a seriously
overloaded VAX-11/780) is replaced as the primary UUCP and news feed
for Ohio State, and most of Columbus that isn't Bell/ATT. The
replacement (a 3b2/400) is waiting for time to install it.
Where the files are
===================
GNU Emacs
---------
To get GNU Emacs, substitute `GNUemacs' for both `LOGIN' and
`PASSWORD' in the lines above.
GNU Emacs exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form, exactly what you find on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file
/u2/emacs/edist.tar-18.47.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut
into 36 parts, as the set of files
~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.47.Z-part-[aa-bj]. The first 35 parts are
each exactly 100,000 bytes long, followed by the trailing 36th which
is 71,777 bytes long. The separation helps to keep long distance uucp
sane, so that if it fails midway through a conversation, you need
restart only with the part that failed, rather than the whole beast.
There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond
the current osu-eddie `base' emacs distribution (18.47 now). Diffs
available are:
diff-18.38-18.39.Z 176,494 bytes
diff-18.39-18.40.Z 51,517
diff-18.40-18.41.Z 79,535
diff-18.41-18.44.Z 118,183
diff-18.44-18.45.Z 225,323
diff-18.45-18.46.Z 35,702
diff-18.46-18.47.Z 19,382
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.
Sorry, there do not exist diff files to go from 17.xx to v18. We have
also removed all the v17 and the particularly old v18 diffs in the
interest of saving disc space. If you're that far back in the
versions, you're better off to get a fresh distribution.
GNU Bison
---------
To get GNU Bison, substitute `GNUbison' for both `LOGIN' and
`PASSWORD' in the lines above.
GNU Bison exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /u2/emacs/bison
as of April 28, 1987. It is in ~/gnubison.dist/gnubison.tar.Z, which
is 76,045 bytes long.
MIT C Scheme
------------
To get MIT C Scheme, substitute `GNUschem' for both `LOGIN' and
`PASSWORD' in the lines above. Please notice the lack of a trailing
`e' in those, due to login name length restrictions!
MIT C Scheme is distributed by the GNU Project, as another free
software system. It exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in
compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file
/u2/scheme/dist.tar.Z (that file created April 25, 1987). It is in
~/mitscheme.dist/mitscheme.tar.Z-part-[aa-ao] where all but the last
are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-ao is 37,708 bytes long.
GNU Chess
---------
To get GNU Chess, substitue `GNUchess' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD'
in the lines above.
GNU Chess exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes just as on
venera.isi.edu in the file pub/gnuchess.tar.Z, version 6.09.87, only
split for UUCP consumption. The distribution is in
~/gnuchess.dist/gnuchess.tar.Z-part-[aa-ad], where all but the last
are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-ad is 53,347 bytes long.
GNU C Compiler
--------------
To get the GNU C Compiler (gcc), substitute `GNUgcc' for both `LOGIN'
and `PASSWORD' in the lines above.
The GNU C Compiler (gcc) exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes
just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file /u2/emacs/gcc.tar-1.4.Z, only
split for UUCP consumption. The distribution is in
~/gcc.dist/gcc.tar-1.4.Z-part-[aa-al], where all but the last are each
100,000 bytes long and part-al is 34,261 bytes long.
There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond
the current osu-eddie `base' gcc distribution (1.4 now). Diffs
available are:
gcc.diffs-1.1-1.2.Z 65,485 bytes
gcc.diffs-1.2-1.3.Z 74,465
gcc.diffs-1.3-1.4.Z 33,797
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.
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' part-?s will take on the order of 7 hours at 1200 bps,
correspondingly less at 2400. Your mileage will definitely vary, by
as much as 25% on either side of those estimates. If you successfully
UUCP anything from osu-eddie, 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-eddie!~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.47.Z-part-\* /some/local/directory
because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux*
to run a uucp command on osu-eddie; 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 edist.tar-18.47.Z-part-?? | 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 GNU software available here
is unpacked similarly.
(The `zcat' mentioned above is part of the `compress' distribution,
from Volume 2 of your friendly nearby mod.sources archive.)
Miscellany
==========
This file of instructions exists as the file ~/GNU.instructions
(accessible from any of the logins described above), and is
occasionally 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-eddie!bob osu-eddie!karl
bob@ohio-state.arpa karl@ohio-state.arpa