gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Wang) (09/22/89)
In a recent message concerning Patrick's suggestion of having
telephone tutorials (well, actually it was some other person who
suggested it but PT also agreed...), PT mentioned that an archive
exists for ol telecom articles, tutorials, etc... Where is this site?
Is this FTPable by internet? If so, what directories are these
articles contained in?
Thanks
George Wang
University of Illinois
gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
[Moderator's Note: Ah, another chance to toot my horn. The TELECOM Archives
are indeed reached by anonymous ftp from any internet site permitting this
activity. Here is how to do it:
ftp cs.bu.edu (site is a/k/a its old name: bu-cs.bu.edu)
login anonymous, give some non-null password
cd telecom-archives, then 'ls' to view the contents.
Continue your session according to ftp routine.
You will find almost every issue of the Digest from its beginning in August,
1981 through the present time. The last forty or fifty issues are in the
file called 'telecom-recent', earlier issues are in files labled like this:
1989.vol9.iss001-075 (just an example)
which means 1988, volume 9, issues 001 through 075 are stored therein. Due
to severe constraints on storage, all issues except the past year are now
compressed. You will need to be able to decompress them back to normal size
on your system. If you cannot do this, then take along the copy of 'tar'
we left there for you, and read 'READ.THIS.FIRST' and 'READ.ME' for details.
In addition, a number of special articles and reference materials are there
for your review. Help yourself. PT]