wensel@postgres.uucp (Sharon Wensel) (06/03/89)
In response to many queries about the availability of POSTGRES, here is some information about its status and how to get it: Version 1.0 of POSTGRES is now available for distribu- tion. It runs on Versions 3.4, 3.5, or 3.6 of SUN OS for Sun 3/xxx class machines. It consists of about 65000 lines of C and 17000 lines of Lisp and requires Franz Lisp Opus 42 or 43 to operate. Because of size, performance, and debugging problems, we have embarked on a crash effort to convert the 17000 lines of Lisp into C. Hence, in about 2 months we plan to re-release a Lisp-less Version 1 with the same function as the current system. This will be smaller, faster and will not require Franz Lisp. If you would like the current system, you can get it in one of two ways: (1) Send a check payable to the Regents of the University of California for $150.00 to: Sharon Wensel 521 Evans Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720. Indicate in your accompanying letter whether you want the system on a 9-track tape at 1600 BPI, at 6250 BPI, or on a cartridge tape for SUN shoeboxes (QIC 24 for- mat). (2) FTP the code to your site over the ARPA net by typing the following bracketed text without brackets. You should see similar output. % [ ftp 128.32.149.1 ] # or ftp postgres.berkeley.edu Connected to 128.32.149.1. 220 postgres FTP server (Version 4.4 Sun Feb 5 07:58:07 PST 1989) ready. Name (128.32.149.1:): [ anonymous ] 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password:[ mylogin@myhost ] 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> [ cd pub ] 250 CWD command successful. ftp> [ binary ] 200 Type set to I. ftp> [ get postgres-v1r1.tar.Z ] 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v1r1.tar.Z (NNNNNNN bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: postgres-v1r1.tar.Z remote: postgres-v1r1.tar.Z NNNNNNN bytes received in MMM.MM seconds (KK Kbytes/s) ftp> [ quit ] 221 Goodbye. % Alternately, you can wait a couple of months for the C based system, and we will post another message then indicating how to get the system. Thank you.