turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (03/01/88)
As I promised at the XUG meeting in Boston, I am announcing an email
accessable X Archive at Daisy. The following is a copy of the index
file from the main archive (XArchive). You would request it by typing:
echo send index | mail ....daisy!netlib
or
mail -s "send index" ....daisy!netlib
some common paths for daisy are:
uunet!daisy
ucbvax!imagen!atari!daisy
nsc!daisy
sgi!daisy
Please note that indices exist only for XArchive, XArchive/X11 and
XArchive/X10, as time allows I will flesh out the documentation. To
receive them type:
echo send index from XArchive/X11 | mail ...daisy!netlib
for example. The program translates all names to lower case so you can
ignore the shift key if you wish.
Some of the things available are: the andrew toolkit, the portable bitmap
converter, X11R1 fixes etc.
-----XArchive index
X Archive Software
Edited by James M. Turner -- February 24, 1988
The directory XArchive contains "public domain" programs, either contributed by
the user community, or written and subsequently abandoned by corporations
relating to the X Window System.
All of the software here is available free for the asking from many sources; it
is provided only as a convenience. As such, Daisy Systems does not support
it. Some of the software is not even likely to work on all platforms.
Each subsystem has an index file in its root directory. This file should be
'requested' (e.g. send index from XArchive/X11) to determine what files are
available in each subdirectory.
The XArchive directory is divided into topical directories:
Parent Directory Software Type
------------------- -------------------------------------------------------
XArchive/X10 Files relating to or written for X10V4
XArchive/X11 Files relating to or written for X11R1 or X11R2
With each directory is an index file that describes the packages within that
directory. "Stat" codes provide limited information about the product:
? - Unknown, no one has looked at it.
Doc - Documentation.
New - Has not been compiled, but looks reasonable.
Comp - Compiles without error.
OK - Has been compiled and used; seems to work as documented.
Supp - Supported product of Daisy, though in the public domain.
Programs with a single source module are stored in a "misc" subdirectory under
the topical directory. Programs with more than one source module are stored in
a "distribution bundle" located in the top level directory, in one of the
following formats:
product - No suffix implies a shar file.
product.shar - Shar format. Use /bin/sh to extract files.
product.shar.Z - Compressed Shar format. Use uncompress, than /bin/sh.
product.tar - Tar format. Use tar utility to extract files.
product.tar.Z - Compressed Tar format. Use uncompress, then tar.
All compressed modules use 16-bit compression. These *cannot* be decompressed
on small-address-space machines like the PDP-11.
If you do not have compress version 4.0, then you should obtain it before
retrieving anything else.
CAVEAT:
Since I maintain this archive in my spare time, it's not really in the
shape I'd like it to be. Formats are inconsistent; the index files are
incomplete, some sources are incomplete or damaged. This will -- I hope --
improve over time. <jmt>
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Laissez les bons temps rouler - Queen Ida
...{decwrl|ucbvax}!imagen!atari!daisy!turner (James M. Turner)
Daisy Systems, 700 E. Middlefield Rd, P.O. Box 7006,
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