wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) (03/12/88)
Here's a copy of Vincent Broman's announcement of his archive:
(sent to me by Frank Wortner in reply to my question. Since I've seen
at least two more queries posted since I posted mine, I thought
I'd share this with everybody.)
Bugs.Nosc.Mil archives comp.os.minix news articles of lasting interest
and other Minix material, such as a list of machines reported to be
able to run Minix. Material of widespread interest includes diffs for
updating v1.1 to v1.2 and preliminary fixes headed for v1.3, code developing
toward a serial port driver, diffs for cross compilation under MS-C and
Turbo-C, the new asld with split I&D, and recently the editor, Elle v4.1 .
This material is available by anonymous FTP (during non-business hours)
on bugs.nosc.mil in directory pub/Minix . The file SUBJECTS contains a list
of Subject lines serving as a kind of index. The file names are mostly just
the Message-Id of a news article.
Several ways to get these kinds of goodies, in order:
1. Look, or ask someone you know to look, for articles still available
on the machine where you read news, or on a neighbor.
2. Ask the person who posted the material to mail it to you.
3. Get access to a machine on the ArpaNet (or talk to an acquaintance who
has access) and FTP to louie.udel.edu or bugs.nosc.mil .
4. To get smaller selections from the bugs.nosc.mil archive by Email,
see the instructions following.
5. To get very large amounts of material from archives, talk to someone
in charge of it, e.g. me, about mailing a tape. Surface-mailing of tapes
is cheap. Voluminous Email is expensive, though not as expensive as
posting news.
Everything available to anon. FTP in directory pub/Minix can be obtained by
sending a mailed request to minix-server@bugs.nosc.mil or nosc!minix-server .
Include in the message, either among the header fields or the body, a line
like:
Reply-To: <your mail address>
and after that a line or lines naming desired files e.g.:
send compatibility
send SUBJECTS
send 1180@botter.cs.vu.nl
to get an automatic mailed reply. Notice file names are case sensitive.
<your mail address> should look something like one of these examples:
you@stolaf.uucp
sdcsvax!ihnp4!mtgzz!guru
cs.vu.nl!giant@uunet.uu.net
person%utoronto.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
user%ulowell.csnet@relay.cs.net
honcho%durham.mailnet@mit-multics.arpa .
Email is not free. Abuse of the system will cause bad karma.
Contents may have settled during shipment.
Vincent Broman, code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA
Phone: +1 619 553 1641 Internet: broman@nosc.mil Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman
Hope this proves helpful to others!
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