kochut@lsu.CSNET ("Kris J. Kochut") (11/26/86)
Hi, Sorry to bother you but I am new to GNU Emacs. Is 18.31 in public domain? If so, is there any way to obtain a copy of it but not through ftp (we do not have an ftp link)? Does GNU Emacs 18.31 run on a SUN 3? Thanks for your consideration. Kris Kochut LSU Reply to: kochut%lsu@csnet-relay.CSNET
bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (12/02/86)
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob>
Kris,
No, strictly speaking, GNU Emacs is not Public Domain, but you can get
it for the cost of a long (duration, and possibly distance) UUCP phone
call. Here are the instructions that Karl sends out over comp.emacs
every so often, and I suppose it's about time to repost them:
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How to reach osu-eddie via uucp
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A set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie:
# direct 1200bps dialin
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-7709 "" \r login: gnumacs ssword: gnumacs
# Hitchcock Micom switch
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1152 "" \d\r NAME \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO\d\r\d\r login: gnumacs ssword: gnumacs
# Baker Micom switch
osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3070 Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: gnumacs ssword: 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 (still)
lone direct dialin available for primarily local access. When (not
"if"; definitely "when," probably next month) we get more dialin lines,
this restriction will probably be removed. Some of the new lines will
have 2400 baud modems, too.
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-18.30.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut
into 15 parts, as the set of files ~/gnumacs.dist/Part-[a-o]. The
first 14 parts are all exactly 200,000 bytes long, followed by the
trailing 15th which is 110,427 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.
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 6 hours. Your mileage will definitely
vary, by as much as 25% on either side of that estimate.
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 15 uucp commands, one for each file.
After the files have all showed up, you should put them back together
in a single file again with cat(1), as in
cat Part-? > edist.tar-18.30.Z
Then you should uncompress the resulting file, and run `tar xf <file>'
to extract the complete distribution. Voila`, you have GNU Emacs,
ready to build and cause you both joy and pain for the rest of your
life.
Miscellany
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This file of instructions exists as the file ~/gnumacs.ins.
Someone invariably has problems with uucp. Feel free to write me some
mail; I'll be happy to help as much as I can, though that is usually
limited by distance.
Cheers,
osu-eddie!karl
karl@ohio-state.arpa
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I hope this is of help to you.
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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 ...!cb{osgd,att}!osu-eddie!bob
(614) 292 - 0915