verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) (10/19/88)
There have been a number of requests for UUCP pickup of CAP and KIP.
The machine 'osu-cis' has both CAP and KIP.
Instructions (stolen from the periodic GNU dist. announcement) follow:
This file (osu-cis!~/GNU.how-to-get) describes how to get the
following software from osu-cis via semi-anonymous UUCP:
GNU Emacs GNU Bison GNU Chess GNU Assembler
GNU Awk GNU Debugger MIT C Scheme GNU /bin Utilities
GNU C Compiler G++ & GDB+ A GNU Button Compress
Patch The Internet Requests for Comment (RFCs) and IDEAS
News RN NNTP Gnews
Pathalias-V9 Smail2.5 Mush Ispell
Mg2a PC-RRN RCS GCC VMS Bootstrap
Dist/Metaconfig Nnstat STDWIN Proxy ARP
Xcomm The GNU Emacs Lisp Manual GNU Diff
GNU Grep GNUS Appletalk Support Software
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) and the GNU Emacs General Public License
(emacs/etc/COPYING).
How to reach osu-cis via uucp
===============================
Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-cis:
#
# Micom switch 2400 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-3124 "" \r\c Name? osu-cis RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon
#
# Micom switch 1200 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3112 "" \r\c Name? osu-cis RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon
#
# direct 2400 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 in:--in: Uanon
#
# direct 1200 bps
#
osu-cis Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-1152 in:--in: Uanon
#
Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. Note that there is no
limit concerning what hours of the day you may call. Please use the
Micom switch ports whenever you can - that's why they're listed first.
Where the files are
===================
These 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 of the file names you'll find here are much shorter than the name
of the corresponding source file, because the sources come from
Berkeley systems and osu-cis is only a 3B2/400 running SysVr3.0.
We've tried to maintain informative names at the expense of
readability.
CAP Version 5.0
---------------
Sources from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu. Files are in
/u/public/macintosh/appletalk/cap50. Files are cap50.tar.Z and
cpr.0001 - cpr.0003
KIP for 1/88 and 6/88
---------------------
Sources from sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Files are in the directory
/u/public/macintosh/appletalk. Files are kip0188.shar.Z,
kip0688.shar.Z, and kip0688.notes.
What to do with it all - building Emacs as an example
======================
Pick a night when you can afford to be at the office late. {:-)}
Arrange to have the files uucp'd to your site. Copying the complete
set of Emacs slices will take on the order of 5 hours at 2400 bps,
correspondingly more at 1200. Your mileage will definitely vary, by
as much as 20% on either side of that (intentionally vague) estimate.
By way of comparison, a recent Emacs 18.50 transfer at 2400bps to
Portland, Oregon was reported to cost about $42.00, weekend rates. If
you successfully UUCP anything from osu-cis, please send us mail
describing any problems you had, and (if possible) an estimate of how
long it took you and at what baud rate, so that we can keep these
figures up to date.
Note: Do not request the files to be transferred using a command like
% uucp osu-cis!/u/public/emacs/emacs-18.52-\* /some/local/directory
because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux*
to run a uucp command on osu-cis; it will fail for security reasons.
You must issue many uucp commands: one for each file in each
distribution you want, plus one for each diff file you want. They
will all get queued and executed in as few UUCP connections as
possible.
After the files have all showed up, you should extract the full
distribution of GNU Emacs thusly:
cat emacs-18.52-?? | zcat | tar xvf -
Voila`, you have GNU Emacs, ready to build and cause you both joy and
pain for the rest of your life. The other stuff available here is
unpacked similarly.
The `zcat' mentioned above is part of the `compress' distribution,
which you will have to get if you don't have it yet. Everything that
we distribute (except `compress' itself) is compressed with a 16-bit
Lempel-Ziv scheme. Some computers (notably those based on Intel
family microprocessors) are unable for memory segmentation reasons to
handle compression with a scheme higher than 12 bits. Since we can't
afford the space and time to provide both 12- and 16-bit distributions
via this mechanism, if you need things in a 12-bit compression format,
you will need to find a cooperative friend with a full 32-bit machine
to uncompress the distribution, and possibly recompress it for you in
12-bit format.
Miscellany
==========
This file of instructions exists as the file ~/GNU.how-to-get, and is
updated as new distributions and diffs come out and are made
available. This happens much more frequently than the full set of
instructions are posted to comp.sources.d, so get it first to be sure
what you are getting later in each night's UUCP transfer.
Unfortunately, the worst case might be that (e.g.) if you only get
part of a full distribution one night and a new version arrives during
the day, you might get some of the part-*s for the old version and not
know that the rest of your part-*s are from the new one. Get this
file to be sure.
Someone invariably has problems with uucp. Feel free to write us some
mail; we'll be happy to help as much as we can, though that is usually
limited by distance and mail turnaround time.
Cheers,
Bob Sutterfield Karl Kleinpaste
osu-cis!bob osu-cis!karl
bob@cis.ohio-state.edu karl@cis.ohio-state.edu
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