stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) (04/30/89)
I called the uport bbs yesterday. It's still up and running BUT they'd
ERASED MY ACCOUNT *again* (for about the 3rd time)! I hadn't called since early
September 1988 and I guess they reinstalled it just after that--of course
every time they reinstalled it they threw out all the accounts and forced
everyone to "reapply" for upload/download privledges. I have applied AGAIN but
based on what I'm hearing I doubt there is any chance anyone there is
bothering to validate new bbs accounts.
WOULD SOMEONE WITH A VALID DOWNLOAD ACCOUNT be willing to send me their
login information? I'd like to snag as much of the material as I can while I
can.
Is anyone out there making an organized effort to become an archive/clearing
house/download source for Microport specific information? Perhaps a few of
us could collaborate toward this end? If we don't start documentingi/archiving
stuff *now* we are going to be SOL once the participation in this newsgroup
begins to decline.
I'd also be interested in participating in an effort to document the purpose
of the misc. files in the various V/AT system directories (/etc, /bin, /usr/bin
and the stuff in /usr/lib). I don't know how many of these files are
"standard" to System V in general but I do know that an awful lot of them
are not mentioned *anywhere* in the bound documentation.
----------
Steve Rudek {ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac OR ames!pacbell!sactoh0} !tree!stevertvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (05/02/89)
In article <290@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes: >I called the uport bbs yesterday. It's still up and running BUT they'd >ERASED MY ACCOUNT *again* (for about the 3rd time)! I know. It's happened to me several times. ** SIGH! ** >WOULD SOMEONE WITH A VALID DOWNLOAD ACCOUNT be willing to send me their >login information? Please, me too! I can supply my serial number if you want. >house/download source for Microport specific information? Perhaps a few of >us could collaborate toward this end? If we don't start documentingi/archiving >stuff *now* we are going to be SOL once the participation in this newsgroup >begins to decline. I would be willing to allow my home BBS to be used for this. I've just put together a BBS based on the article in the June, 1987 Dr. Dobb's Journal. The phone number is listed in my signature. BTW, I only have 1 file available for download (boo!), but it's the 386 assembler document from the Microport BBS (yea!). It's in the Unix files section. Thomas V. Frauenhofer ...!rutgers!rochester!cci632!ccird7!tvf *or* ...!rochester!cci632!ccird7!frau!tvf *or* ...!rochester!rit!anna!ma!tvf1477 FRAU BBS: (716) 227-8094 2400/1200/300 baud - log in as "new" to register
johnk@grebyn.COM (John Kennedy) (05/03/89)
In article <290@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes: I'd like to snag as much of the material as I can while I >can. > >Is anyone out there making an organized effort to become an archive/clearing >house/download source for Microport specific information? If anyone is collecting (or has collected) the goodies from the BBS, does anyone have the copy of pathalias that they had posted that will run on a Sys V/AT? I would appreciate a copy mailed to me, johnk@opel.UUCP. Thanks in advance, John -- John Kennedy | Second Source, Inc. johnk@opel.UUCP | Annapolis, MD
randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) (05/05/89)
In article <11943@grebyn.COM>, johnk@grebyn.COM (John Kennedy) writes: > In article <290@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes: > I'd like to snag as much of the material as I can while I can. > > >Is anyone out there making an organized effort to become an archive/clearing > >house/download source for Microport specific information? > > If anyone is collecting (or has collected) the goodies from the > BBS, does anyone have the copy of pathalias that they had posted that > will run on a Sys V/AT? I would appreciate a copy mailed to me, > johnk@opel.UUCP. I was in Scotts Valley, CA late December 1988 and copied their entire BBS on 8 - 1.2MB floppies. I lost 2 floppies in the irradiated / magnetized airline security lines. I tried to keep them from zapping and stuff but all terrorists carry floppies, ya know. No ma'am, that's not a bomb, them's floppies. The fact they were {Precision}tm flexible disks I got in a dive computer store near downtown SJ probably didn't help. Phhhtttt! Serve me right for being in a hurry. :-( I collected both the 286 and 386 libraries. *Anyway*, I can't offer anon uucp (no dedicated phone line), ftp (not on internet, thats another posting), e-mail/floppies (don't have the time, I got a life, ... really!), but would prefer to distribute what I have to a few that can publicly offer these for distribution / archive or have first class ftp-able sites. The list sums up as; 100555 1011 24424 Dec 4 21:21:28 1987 unix/compress.286 100555 1011 38040 Dec 5 02:15:30 1987 unix/compress.386 100444 1011 106171 Dec 4 00:34:25 1987 unix/dit2ps.tar.Z 100444 1011 115017 Dec 4 00:36:38 1987 unix/hum.tar.Z 100444 1011 488297 Dec 7 11:56:44 1987 unix/jove.tar.Z 100444 1011 106739 Dec 4 00:19:41 1987 unix/logo.tar.Z 100444 1011 571621 Dec 4 00:26:40 1987 unix/news-211.tar.Z 100444 1011 38085 Dec 4 00:31:27 1987 unix/palias.tar.Z 100444 1011 64281 Dec 4 00:35:35 1987 unix/patch.tar.Z 100444 1011 390971 Dec 4 00:28:32 1987 unix/rn.tar.Z 100444 1011 44583 Dec 4 22:03:34 1987 unix/sc41.tar.Z 100444 1011 168523 Dec 4 00:29:36 1987 unix/smail.tar.Z 40755 1011 0 Sep 25 20:40:29 1988 286-drvr 100444 1011 42496 May 9 15:28:59 1988 286-drvr/ramd.tar 40755 1011 0 Oct 1 17:13:54 1988 286-fix 100444 1011 1228 May 12 14:36:04 1988 286-fix/ansi.ti 100444 1011 16896 May 12 14:54:52 1988 286-fix/asy.tar 100444 1011 3151 Feb 18 01:37:17 1988 286-fix/clock.doc 100444 1011 38750 Mar 23 20:10:08 1988 286-fix/divvy 100444 1011 33580 Jan 6 20:57:24 1988 286-fix/dosdir 100444 1011 44054 Jan 18 19:08:51 1988 286-fix/libPW.a 100444 1011 9216 May 12 14:54:51 1988 286-fix/lp.tar 100444 1011 25084 Jan 14 13:29:03 1988 286-fix/mail 100444 1011 59392 Jan 6 20:51:37 1988 286-fix/patch.tar 100644 root 321493 Jul 28 17:55:29 1988 286-fix/uucp.cpio.Z 100444 1011 95955 Mar 9 17:24:37 1988 286-fix/vi.tar.Z 100444 1011 44046 Feb 2 15:14:26 1988 286-fix/yacc 40755 1011 0 Nov 11 19:30:01 1988 386-fix 100644 root 4630 Jun 28 13:19:30 1988 386-fix/8237.h 100644 103 1398 Nov 11 19:29:54 1988 386-fix/AT386.ti 100444 1011 17259 May 11 17:06:11 1988 386-fix/asy.o 100444 1011 60072 May 15 14:00:00 1988 386-fix/config 101755 bin 26608 Oct 21 13:27:37 1988 386-fix/cpp 100755 103 42442 Oct 12 15:39:24 1988 386-fix/cpp.00 100444 1011 40476 Mar 20 12:23:57 1988 386-fix/dosdir 100444 1011 17684 Apr 19 12:52:20 1988 386-fix/format 100644 root 15825 Jun 21 10:57:56 1988 386-fix/kd.h 100444 1011 6026 Mar 17 21:29:46 1988 386-fix/lp.o 100755 169 1009 Oct 6 18:37:48 1988 386-fix/wy60 100444 1011 48764 Feb 1 20:45:44 1988 386-fix/yacc 40755 1011 0 Nov 23 10:50:36 1988 386-upgr 100755 103 12143 Oct 12 23:59:47 1988 386-upgr/getty.Z 100755 103 75477 Jul 20 16:46:55 1988 386-upgr/ksh.Z 100444 1011 67584 Feb 1 19:38:07 1988 386-upgr/more.tar 100444 1011 24576 Apr 25 20:01:56 1988 386-upgr/swapkey.cpio 100644 root 135015 Oct 28 19:21:03 1988 386-upgr/vi.tar.Z 40755 1011 0 Dec 5 12:08:24 1988 games 100444 1011 69504 Mar 9 13:21:09 1988 games/chess.sh 100444 1011 752805 Feb 10 12:45:13 1988 games/fortune.tar.Z 100444 1011 571927 Mar 9 14:33:32 1988 games/nethack.cpio.Z 100444 1011 17536 Mar 6 11:23:19 1988 games/sunmoon.c 40755 1011 0 Dec 23 04:06:00 1988 general 100666 root 3973 Sep 30 16:04:07 1988 general/286-bugs 100666 157 10659 Oct 12 12:45:51 1988 general/386-bugs 100444 1011 45794 Apr 8 13:43:58 1988 general/asm_def.doc 100444 root 79519 Dec 22 01:26:05 1988 general/gfx.cpio.Z 100444 1011 32635 Mar 10 22:13:50 1988 general/guide.ua 100444 1011 170036 Feb 26 18:21:48 1988 general/headers.tar.Z 100666 root 15329 Dec 23 04:05:49 1988 general/libgfx.a.286.Z 100666 143 2459 Dec 9 11:52:49 1988 general/prf.o 100644 1011 910 Dec 2 17:47:41 1988 general/shmlib.c 100644 root 5767 Dec 23 04:07:47 1988 general/sizes 40755 1011 0 Oct 27 19:41:17 1988 unix 100755 1011 39819 Jan 5 22:15:03 1988 unix/arc 100444 1011 3579 Jan 6 22:10:43 1988 unix/cgetty.c 100444 1011 12794 Mar 2 01:43:39 1988 unix/ctags.sh 100444 1011 33382 Mar 9 12:43:10 1988 unix/des.sh 100444 1011 8741 Jan 15 23:26:28 1988 unix/dhry.c 100444 1011 9216 Mar 9 23:19:09 1988 unix/diffc.tar 100444 1011 460800 Jun 2 12:10:00 1988 unix/doc.tar 100444 1011 222019 May 29 06:29:40 1988 unix/emacs.cpio.Z 100444 1011 1938 Jan 12 06:05:28 1988 unix/forktest.c.Z 100444 1011 17152 Jan 17 05:29:57 1988 unix/fsanal.tar.Z 100444 1011 3839 Mar 21 14:22:00 1988 unix/getblks.c 100444 1011 63360 Jan 15 22:33:20 1988 unix/less.cpio.Z 100644 root 489 Oct 13 11:11:59 1988 unix/list 100444 1011 33280 Jan 15 23:10:38 1988 unix/mdm.cpio.Z 100444 1011 11776 Jan 15 22:45:14 1988 unix/ncu.cpio.Z 100444 1011 8384 Jan 6 22:06:49 1988 unix/nixpub 100444 1011 57472 Jan 15 22:58:26 1988 unix/rzsz.cpio.Z 100444 1011 36817 Jan 28 17:50:48 1988 unix/tabeps.sh 100444 1011 60031 Jan 6 20:39:46 1988 unix/table.tar.Z 100444 1011 8832 Jan 15 22:48:46 1988 unix/uptime.cpio.Z 100444 1011 2304 Jan 11 04:34:41 1988 unix/vsar.c.Z 100444 1011 3584 Jan 11 04:09:43 1988 unix/write.c.Z 100444 1011 45440 Jan 19 06:04:56 1988 unix/xcomm.tar.Z Anyone notice the 386-fix/lp.o?? Is this the much talked about driver? Well, sorry for being the klutz that I am, but at least this is a start for the Microport users to defend themselves until uport gets their act together or they just go away. I *do* want to do my part to support my fellow sufferers, I just don't know what is appropriate. I'll wait for mail, discussions, etc. then post the volunteers and sites and methods for access. (This may take a few weeks.) Cheers! - randy Usenet: randy@rls.uucp Bangpath: ...<backbone>!osu-cis!rls!randy Internet: rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher) (05/06/89)
In article <334@rls.UUCP> randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) writes: >I was in Scotts Valley, CA late December 1988 and copied their entire >BBS on 8 - 1.2MB floppies. > >The list sums up as; > >100444 1011 9216 May 12 14:54:51 1988 286-fix/lp.tar >100444 1011 6026 Mar 17 21:29:46 1988 386-fix/lp.o > >Anyone notice the 386-fix/lp.o?? Is this the much talked about driver? Since he was there in 1988, and the file is dated March 17, this would mean that this lp.o was last played with on March 17, 1988. Since I didn't even START at Microport till June 1988, I don't think this is the one I worked on. I am (slowly) working on recreating a lp driver, but without Microport sources (You can see why I don't want to use them, can't you :-) and without lots of free time it will take a bit. When it is done, I will post it. -John Plocher
david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) (05/08/89)
In article <28246@cci632.UUCP> tvf@ccird7.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes: >I would be willing to allow my home BBS to be used for this. I've just put >together a BBS based on the article in the June, 1987 Dr. Dobb's Journal. The >phone number is listed in my signature. I too would be willing to create a UPORT file area on my BBS and also I could make the stuff there available for UUCP access too. If anyone is interested, let me know via e-mail. The BBS is reachable (but has no uport stuff now) at (415) 452-4792. >Thomas V. Frauenhofer ...!rutgers!rochester!cci632!ccird7!tvf >*or* ...!rochester!cci632!ccird7!frau!tvf *or* ...!rochester!rit!anna!ma!tvf1477 >FRAU BBS: (716) 227-8094 2400/1200/300 baud - log in as "new" to register -- David Beckemeyer (david@bdt.UUCP) | "Adios amigos. And, as they say when Beckemeyer Development Tools | the boys are scratching the bad ones, 478 Santa Clara Ave. Oakland, CA 94610 | 'Stay a long time, Cowboy!'" UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax}!unisoft!bdt!david | - Jo Mora