ejs@goldhill.com (Eric Swenson) (03/10/89)
Where are the archives of back issues of telecom? [Moderator's Note: The archives are located at Boston University; on the machine this Digest used to use: bu-cs.bu.edu. Anyone with 'ftp' ability can visit and take as desired. You would 'ftp bu-cs.bu.edu'. Then login as anonymous, with some password. Just follow regular ftp protocol. You would then 'cd telecom-archives' and 'ls' to view the selections available which include almost every issue of the Digest since its beginning in June, 1981, and numerous other essays and articles of interest. Which raises another point: 'some people' put the squeeze on jsol, and he in turn put the squeeze on me. I responded by doing the honorable thing and putting the squeeze on the archives. Now instead of having 10+ megs of material on line, we have 5+ megs of mostly *compressed* stuff. Volumes 1-7, covering 1981 through 1987 were compressed this week. The volume for last year (8) is still regular size, as are the various articles and essays. Likewise, 'telecom-recent', which at any given time is the last 20-30 issues, is regular size. In order to use the compressed material, which is indicated by a .Z after the file name, your system must be able to uncompress anything you bring back with you via ftp. If you cannot uncompress, then you will need the file called 'compress.tar' which is also in the archives. You will need to take the desired file and untar it and compile it on your end. In a real pinch, I will uncompress an entire volume and send it to you if you have no other way of getting the stuff. I will NOT run it all through the editor looking for individual issues/articles, etc. You can do that part. Another archives beginning with Volume 9 will be started soon here at eecs. nwu.edu. I think. Patrick Townson]
chip@vector.uucp (Chip Rosenthal) (03/14/89)
ejs@goldhill.com (Eric Swenson) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 85, message 7 of 7 >Where are the archives of back issues of telecom? >[Moderator's Note: The archives are located at Boston University; on >the machine this Digest used to use: bu-cs.bu.edu. Anyone with 'ftp' ability >can visit and take as desired.... I might add that recent issues are being archived here at the USENET gateway, starting with volume 8 issue 110. Comp.dcom.telecom readers can drop me a line at telecom-request@vector.uucp. -- Chip Rosenthal chip@vector.UUCP | Choke me in the shallow water Dallas Semiconductor 214-450-5337 | before I get too deep.