bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (02/10/87)
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob>
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 292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 292-5112 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 292-5113 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#
# Baker Micom switch 2400 bps - working at 2400 (9-Feb-1987)
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 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 292-7709 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#
# Baker Micom switch 1200 bps
#
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 292-3070 Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#
# Hitchcock Micom switch 1200 bps - 1152 and 1153 broken right now (9-Feb-1987)
#
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 292-1152 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
#osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 292-1153 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 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. 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-18.33.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut
into 16 parts, as the set of files ~/gnumacs.dist/Part-[a-p]. The
first 15 parts are all exactly 200,000 bytes long, followed by the
trailing 16th which is 44,607 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
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.]
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.arpabob@osu-eddie.UUCP (02/11/87)
In article <3086@osu-eddie.UUCP> bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (That's me) writes: > >How to reach osu-eddie via uucp >------------------------------- >Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie: > > (...) >osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD Oops... This is taken from the standard message we sent out to our news feeds, and I forgot to edit in the special-purpose login and password for GNU Emacs distribution. Sorry about that! For purposes of UUCP access to the GNU Emacs distribution on osu-eddie, use login name `gnumacs' and password `gnumacs'. All other information in my posting seems pretty much OK, so far. Some folks seem to have figured it out already from earlier postings of this sort, because there was a flurry of activity overnight. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. -- 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