bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (02/21/87)
(Please note that diff-18.36-18.37.Z will be available within a few days.)
How to reach osu-eddie via uucp
-------------------------------
Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie:
#
# direct 2400 or 1200 bps - two working now (10-Feb-1987)
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: gnumacs word: gnumacs
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5112 "" \r\c in:--in: gnumacs word: gnumacs
#osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5113 "" \r\c in:--in: gnumacs 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: gnumacs word: gnumacs
#
# direct 1200 bps - broken right now (9-Feb-87)
#
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-7709 "" \r\c in:--in: gnumacs 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: gnumacs word: gnumacs
#
# Hitchcock Micom switch 1200 bps - 1152 and 1153 broken right now (9-Feb-1987)
#
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1152 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: gnumacs word: gnumacs
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1153 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: gnumacs word: gnumacs
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1154 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: gnumacs word: gnumacs
Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. 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 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-18.37.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut
into 17 parts, as the set of files ~/gnumacs.dist/Part-[a-q]. The
first 16 parts are all exactly 200,000 bytes long, followed by the
trailing 17th which is 1,173 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 beyond (and sometimes previous to)
the current distribution. 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 (not here yet, but
try back in a
couple of days)
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. -Bob]
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.
What to do with it all
----------------------
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 will take on the order of 7 hours at 1200 bps, correspondingly
less at 2400 (which we can do now, as of this posting! You're
welcome! :-). Your mileage will definitely vary, by as much as 25%
on either side of those estimates.
Note: Do not request the files to be transferred using a command like
% uucp osu-eddie!~/gnumacs.dist/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 16 uucp commands, one for each file.
After the files have all showed up, you should extract the full
distribution of GNU Emacs thusly:
cat 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.
Miscellany
----------
This file of instructions exists as the file ~/gnumacs.ins.
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,
Karl Kleinpaste: Bob Sutterfield:
osu-eddie!karl osu-eddie!bob
karl@ohio-state.arpa bob@ohio-state.arpa
Bob Sutterfield, Computer and Information Science Department
The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bob
(614) 292 - 0915bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (02/22/87)
In article <3181@osu-eddie.UUCP> bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >(Please note that diff-18.36-18.37.Z will be available within a few days.) > ... > diff-18.36-18.37.Z 238,653 bytes (not here yet, but > try back in a > couple of days) It's here already. CSnet, she been bery bery good to me today. ------ 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 - 0915 or (614) 292 - 5813