lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano) (07/30/90)
I think I get the question, "Where can I get ..." more than any other question posed to me. I don't have the facilities to keep megabytes of archives online (unless someone donates some Maxtor 2190's, more modems and more phone lines) :-) Ohio-State University (osu-cis) has been the "official" place for UNIX PC Archives for quite some time. What's great about this site is that it offers access via dialup uucp with every variety of modem imaginable at every variety of speed. It also provides Internet access for anonymous ftp retrieval. Since Brant Cheikes resigned from the Ohio State University UNIX PC Archive maintainer, nothing has been updated since June 10, 1990. I know there were several people who said they would take over his work, but that was the last we heard from them. If no one "stands" up and takes over it, and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain the archives ... Let me know folks! Anyhow, for those who ask the 1 million dollar question, here's how you get to the archives and here's what you do FIRST once you get there! |From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu |Subject: Re: uucp info for osu-cis | |This file (osu-cis!~/GNU.how-to-get) describes how to get the |following software from osu-cis via semi-anonymous UUCP: | |C++ Test Suite Compress Deliver 2.0 GNU Binary Utilities |GNU Assembler GNU Awk GNU Bash GNU Bison |GNU C++ Compiler GNU C++ Library GNU C Compiler GNU Chess |GNU COFF hacks GNU CPIO GNU DBM GNU Debugger GNU Diff |GNU Emacs GNU Emacs Ada support GNU Emacs Franz interface |GNU Emacs Lisp Manual GNU File Utils GNU Find GNU Finger |GNU Go GNU Gperf & Cperf GNU Grep GNU Indent GNU Lex |GNU Make GNU Pins & Art GNU Plot & Plot2PS GNU Roff |GNU Sed GNU Tar GNUS Ghostscript Gnews Ispell JOVE |KA9Q Kermit M3 MIT C Scheme Mg2a NNTP News |Oops PCRRN Patch Pathalias Protoize |Proxy ARP RCS RFCs & IDEAS RN SB Prolog |STDWIN Sendmail Smail Smalltalk Tcsh VM | |There's a lot of other available miscellany that isn't explicitly |listed here. You can find out about it in the file osu-cis!~/ls-lR.Z | |The Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State |University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products (and others) |via UUCP only as a redistribution service. Anything found here is |only and exactly as it would be found on the indicated Internet hosts, |were one to acquire it via anonymous FTP (like we did); or else saved |it as it flowed past on the Usenet source distribution newsgroups. |OSU CIS takes no responsibility for the contents of any of the |distributions described in this message. See the Distribution |document (emacs/etc/DISTRIB when you unpack and build Emacs) and the |GNU Emacs General Public License (emacs/etc/COPYING, similarly). | |Much of the GNU software is in beta-test. For a list of the current |statuses (stati?), ask gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu for a copy of the latest |FSF order form. | |How to reach osu-cis via uucp |=============================== |Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-cis: | |# |# Direct Trailblazer |# |osu-cis Any ACU 19200 1-614-292-5112 in:--in:--in: Uanon |# |# Direct V.32 (MNP 4) |# dead, dead, dead...sigh. |# |#osu-cis Any ACU 9600 1-614-292-1153 in:--in:--in: Uanon |# |# Micom port selector, at 1200, 2400, or 9600 bps. |# Replace ##'s below with 12, 24, or 96 (both speed and phone number). |# |osu-cis Any ACU ##00 1-614-292-31## "" \r\c Name? osu-cis nected \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon | |Modify as appropriate for your site, of course, to deal with your |local telephone system. There are no limitations concerning the hours |of the day you may call. | |We are deeply grateful to Philips Components of Eindhoven, the |Netherlands for the donation of a Trailblazer Plus and a Codex 2264 |for use by the community at large. | |Where the files are |=================== |Most items exist on osu-cis for distribution purposes in compressed |tar form, exactly what you find on the indicated hosts in the |specified origin files. Most items are cut into pieces for the sake |of uucp sanity. This separation helps if your uucp session fails |midway through a conversation; you need restart only with the part |that failed, rather than the whole beast. The pieces are typically |named with a root word, followed by letter pairs like "aa" and "bj," |meaning that the pieces are all named with the root word, followed by |a dash and the suffixes indicated, using the letters inclusive between |the two limits. All pieces but the last are 100,000 bytes long, and |the fragmentary last piece has some smaller size. | [...] Anonymous FTP transfer from Internet is available at: $ ftp cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu -or- $ ftp 128.146.8.62 Once you add the appropriate Systems entry (or ftp to osu), retrieve the file ~/att7300/README.Z and ~/att7300/STORE/README.Z (or if you're ftp'ing cd into /pub/att7300 [and /pub/att7300/STORE] and retrieve README.Z ) Issue these commands, it helps ... $ uucp -m osu-cis!~/att7300/README.Z !~/README.Z $ uucp -m osu-cis!~/att7300/STORE/README.Z !~/STORE_README.Z These two files explain what's available in the UNIX PC archives and "THE STORE!" UNIX PC archives. As you can see, from what Karl said above, you can retrieve much more than just UNIX PC software here ... For more information on what's there, get a directory listing ... $ uucp -m osu-cis!~/ls-lR.Z !~/ Over a Trailblazer (19.2K), or v.32 (9600) modems the file transfer times are rather trivial ... Happy snarfing, Lenny -- | Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems lenny@icus.ICUS.COM | | {ames,pacbell,decuac,sbcs,hombre,rayssd}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny | +------ ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 ------+
baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur) (07/30/90)
From article <1224@icus.ICUS.COM>, by lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano): > ... If no one "stands" up and takes over it, > and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain > the archives ... Let me know folks! No objections whatsoever, you are a *fantastic* choice. Please take over. Please! -- steve baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM
jcdixon@cbnewse.att.com (jack.c.dixon) (08/03/90)
From article <1224@icus.ICUS.COM>, by lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano): > If no one "stands" up and takes over it, > and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain > the archives ... Let me know folks! Considering the wonderful work that Lenny has done for this group in the past I can't think of anyone I'd rather see administer the archives. Bravo! -- -- Jack Dixon, AT&T { ...!att!vogon!jcd, jcd@vogon.att.com }