glauer@SURAN.BBN.COM.UUCP (06/08/87)
Does anyone have a list of sites which support anonymous ftp of the edist files for gnuemacs? Thanks, Greg P.S. I know louie.udel.edu usually has the latest compressed version, but its version of 18.45.Z seems corrupt (it's smaller than the version on prep and causes uncompress to halt with an error).
delp@UDEL.EDU.UUCP (06/09/87)
>> P.S. I know louie.udel.edu usually has the latest compressed >> version, but its version of 18.45.Z seems corrupt (it's smaller than >> the version on prep and causes uncompress to halt with an error). The louie version is in fact shorter than the prep version. They were built independently, but that should still yield the same file size. I am not sure why this is. I just tried copying the file to another machine, uncompressing it, and running tar on it, and it all worked, with the last file in the distribution being dist-18.45/kept_editor.com (1875 bytes). Make sure when you ftp a compressed file, or a tar file, that you set the type of transfer to image. The BSD client will not do this for you. The command: type image will do the trick. I only burden the list with this comment because this little feature has made several people need to copy the whole file twice. What bandwidth we waste on this note, we gain in eliminated faulty transfers. The source for compress is stored on louie right along with the edist.tar file. It is in tar format, but is not compressed. anonymous ftp, any password. let me know about problems: Gary Delp
bob@wiley.UUCP (06/09/87)
Speaking of distributions of gnu emacs, is anyone providing an anonymous
uucp for distribution of gnu?
---Bob Amstadt
bob@wiley.uucp
{csvax.caltech.edu,trwrb.uucp}!wiley!bobmerlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (06/15/87)
This comes up every 2 months or so; it must be time for me to
post this again. I take anonymous UUCP for purposes of
redistributing GNU emacs.
My version is 18.36, which works well enough for me. (If
someone wants to uucp me a later version, that's ok, too.) The
distribution does not include the lisp/*.elc files, but you don't
need them. Emacs will generate them for you as part of the build
procedure.
The instructions follow. Please observe the time
restrictions. Have fun.
"Death to the Software Imperialists!"
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HQDA-AI is the Army Artificial Intelligence Center at
Headquarters, Department of the Army. Physically, we're at the
Pentagon.
We run a Sun-3/160, Sun OS 3.2 (4.2BSD). We have only one
dialup port, so I must place some restrictions on network access.
Within the need to support production work, we take anonymous UUCP
connections. What you need:
1. A 2400- or 1200-baud autodial modem.
2. A UUCP that can use the modem.
3. Willingness to call Washington, DC.
Note that PC-Pursuit serves the 202 area code. If you have
access to that service, you can dial us through it. Here's the
software details
Phone: 202-694-6911
Login Name: Uanon
Password: none, no password prompt
Hours: Weekdays 11PM to 7AM, all day weekends.
Logins outside that time will be refused.
Sample L.sys line:
hqda-ai Any ACU 2400 202-694-6911 login:--login: Uanon
When you reach our modem, be aware that the computer will
answer at 2400, regardless of the modem speed. If you're
operating at 1200, send a carriage return. That will toggle my
computer to 1200. Another CR will toggle back to 2400.
We have a variety of software packages available, so you
should first fetch the file "Catalog". This will list what's
available, and how to get it.
Some people have reported file name difficulties with
different versions of UUCP, particularly those supplied with
System V. You may have to fetch "Catalog", "./Catalog", or
"~Uanon/Catalog". Keep trying. Send mail to "postmaster" if you
have troubles. Plausible mail paths are:
Internet postmaster%hqda-ai@mimsy.umd.edu
UUCP {path-to-backbone}!seismo!sundc!hqda-ai!postmaster
Smail hqda-ai!postmaster
--
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900
UUCP: *!seismo!sundc!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: merlin%hqda-ai@seismo.css.gov