telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (01/15/90)
The TELECOM Archives has relocated to lcs.mit.edu. This change was required because the size of the archives was such that Boston University was no longer able to accomodate us. The usual ftp rules apply in the new location: 'ftp lcs.mit.edu' login anonymous; give your name and site as password; i.e. 'name@site.domain'. 'cd telecom-archives' 'dir' to see the selections 'get (your selections)' 'bye' One sad problem was discovered. Over the years, the archives have been stored at various locations, and the Digest itself has been produced from various locations; each with different machinery and different operating systems. This would pose no problem except that the 'compress' algorythms (we are now discovering) are not the same, and many cannot work with each other. What this means is a few of the old files compressed at cs.bu or maybe rutgers will not uncompress properly at lcs.mit.edu. I spent most of the day Sunday constructing what I could of the archives from various sources; archives here at eecs, some from cs.bu, some from jsol, etc.... and as a result of the corruption in some of the older files, we only have portions of volumes 1 through 5 at this time. We have none of volume 6 yet; all of volume 7; most of volume 8 and all of volumes 9 and 10. Persons with substantial experience in reconstructing corrupted files are welcome to go to the archives, to the directory 'oldarc' within the archives, and take the compressed files therein and see what they can do. Help will be appreciated. Likewise, if you have complete or partial sets of volumes 1 through 8 and would not mind sending a copy to the archives, let me know first, and I will arrange to get them. Fortunatly, at lcs.mit.edu there is enough space that there is no need to compress the files -- so eveything is easily accessible. What we have of the old files available is listed in the directory. Mike Patton, a system administrator at lcs.mit.edu tells me a mail server will soon be on line, so that our many non-internet users will also be able to access the archives files. Watch for news on this when it is ready to be used. Patrick Townson