s1h@sppy00.UUCP (Steven J. Husting) (08/29/89)
My Xenix system lacks patch. I would be grateful if someone would send it to me. -- Steven Husting "Gosh, Batman, isn't there anything you don't know?" OCLC Inc. "Yes, Robin, several things." sppy00!s1h.UUCP slh@oclcrsun.bitnet
jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) (08/30/89)
In article <522@sppy00.UUCP> s1h@sppy00.UUCP (Steven J. Husting) writes: >My Xenix system lacks patch. I would be grateful if someone would send it to >me. Ok. I keep getting these messages wanting to know where me and my machine went, so I guess I need to make this posting. rpp386 is an anonymous UUCP archive server. You call it with a UUCP request for sources and it sends you the files you asked for. It also handles kermit, tho' kermit works kinda funky. [ So they say ... ] The complete list of files is in /usr/spool/uucppublic/archive. It is non-small in itself, but is kept fairly up to date. It includes patch and many other favorites. There is a smaller version I will try to bring up to date. This is a working L.sys line: rpp386 Any ACU 2400 15128328835 in:--in:--in: uucp If you are calling at 1200 baud you need to fiddle around a bit. There are something like 140 of the favorite net.toys in there. A typical session would be something like % uucp -m rpp386!~/archive /usr/spool/uucppublic/rpp.archive Then wait for the mail saying the transfer completed. You may want to pick up rpp386!~/snatch, which is a shell script which knows how to get things from this machine. -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the month club: ------------ VoiceNet: (512) 832-8832 Data: -8835 | Speaking of Netnews Administration: InterNet: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org | "If Bill Vajk can do it, anyone can" UUCPNet: {texbell|bigtex}!rpp386!jfh +--------- -- Patricia O Tuama-----
marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) (09/09/89)
In article <522@sppy00.UUCP> s1h@sppy00.UUCP (Steven J. Husting) writes: >My Xenix system lacks patch. I would be grateful if someone would send it to >me. Well this is as good as time as any to introduce my archive server. The server is a mail based file server running on a SCO Xenix 286 machine with two 373MB Hard drives. The system talks to rex.cs.tulane.edu on the hour. Rex has a smart mailer that is able to resolve most address, and is directly connected to the internet. Communications with rex is via a Telebit running at 19.2K. I am running patch 2.0 on my machine, Sco Xenix 286. The source code is available by sending a message to the archive server on this machine. The archive server will automatically uncompress files for you if they are already compressed, and will send tar and other binary files if you tell it to uuencode them. In any case, files that are greater than 60k are spiit for you. Here are the six commands that the server understands; TEST, SET, SEND, HELP, INDEX, LIST. The TEST command just sends a reply back to you, i added this command so people could find a good address to the system, as well as finding the time required for the message to travel a certain path. The SET command takes one option, they are CBITS16, CBITS12, COMPRESS, PACK, UUENCODE, and BTOA. CBITS12 and CBITS16 cause compress to use either 12 or 16 bit compression. COMPRESS and PACK specify the type of file compression you want, they both default to "no". The BTOA and UUENCODE options set what type of conversion a binary (or ascii) file undergoes before it is sent out. The also defaults to "no". You must SET UUENCODE or SET BTOA if you set COMPRESS OR PACK, or want to receive a binary file. The SEND command queues up a file to send a file to you. If the file is compressed, it will be uncompressed, then if COMPRESS or PACK is set, compress or pack will run, and then if UUENCODE or BTOA was set, that will be done. If after all this, the file is binary, you will receive a message saying the archive server would not send it. If the file is larger than 60K, it will be split into parts, and the parts and a message saying how many parts there are will be send to you, otherwise the file is sent. Oh, if you tell the server to send a file, and it can't find it, it will try the filename with the .Z extension before giving up. The Help commands does just that, you will be sent the system help file. The INDEX command sends a list of file names with descriptions. This is designed for usenet postings, the subject line is included in the index. The LIST command sends a unix 'ls -lR' listing of the available files I just started writing this server earlier this week, so far the INDEX and LIST commands will only get you the master index and list files, these files are 258K and 320K respectively. Until I fix the software to allow the requester to get a specific index, you may want to use the SEND command and get the index and lists from the differant net areas. Currently the following group news groups are archived; Newsgroup Directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alt.sources alt/sources/ comp.binaries.amiga comp/binaries/amiga/ comp.binaries.atari.st comp/binaries/atari.st/ comp.binaries.ibm.pc comp/binaries/ibm/pc/ comp.binaries.mac comp/binaries/mac/ comp.sources.amiga comp/sources/amiga/ comp.sources.atari.st comp/sources/atari/st/ comp.sources.games comp/sources/games/ comp.sources.mac comp/sources/mac comp.sources.misc comp/sources/misc comp.sources.sun comp/sources/sun comp.sources.unix comp/sources/unix comp.sources.x comp/sources/x/ So to get the index for comp.sources.unix, you want file comp/sources/unix/index. Well it is 3:00 in the morning, i need to get some sleep. This is not the archive server HELP file, although i may make it so. I debated for a long time about putting it up when there are a number of other ones available. I am still not sure it was that great of an idea. The Software still needs some work, and could use a good pounding on. Until i find the bugs in it, it will not be available. I looked at netlib and was not able to find the bug in it, and the Reid server (is that the name?) had a lot of BSD specific stuff in it. I guess that is it for now, if you have any problems, send them to the address below and i will take care of them. > > >-- >Steven Husting "Gosh, Batman, isn't there anything you don't know?" >OCLC Inc. "Yes, Robin, several things." >sppy00!s1h.UUCP >slh@oclcrsun.bitnet Oh, to get Patch 2 send the following one line message user archive at system rex!mgse (rex!mgse!archive); send other/unix/Patch2.18.Z The file is 72K compressed so you may also want to do ; set compress set uuencode send other/unix/Patch2.18.Z Goodnight (or is it morning yet.). -- Mark Seiffert, Metairie, LA. uucp: rex!mgse!marks bitnet: marks%mgse@REX.CS.TULANE.EDU internet: marks%mgse@rex.cs.tulane.edu