ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (04/23/91)
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Q: I have made some programs myself which I think might be of
general interest. Or I have obtained this fabulous program which I
think would be of general interest. Or I have a more recent version
of this program than you have on your archives. Would it be
possible to upload them to your system.
A: Yes, please. We are certainly interested in all quality
programs. (A proper documentation is one of the prerequisites. The
program, and the documentation should be in English). If you are
sending an update of your own program, I would recommend that you
make the version number a part of your package name. (In fact I'd
like to insist). For example, I use the following format,
tsutil30.arc and so on, in my own packages.
There are two alternatives in sending your package to us. The
strongly preferred method is using ftp to put your package directly
to one of our incoming directories. The relevant ftp commands after
connecting are eg cd /pc/incoming, binary (if not an ordinary ascii
file), put YourFile (see Appendix C for a sample session). Zip is
our preferred packing method, but we can handle also .arc, .arj,
.pak, .lzh, and .zoo if necessary.
If you use this alternative, please send an email message to
Harri Valkama hv@uwasa.fi informing him about your upload. I don't
poll the incoming directories on a regular basis. When you inform
Harri of your upload, please let me have a carbon copy of your
message for my information.
If your upload is meant for my attention, please send me email
about the upload when you have made it. For the sake of
coordination, it would be useful if you would direct a carbon copy
of your upload notification to Harri, stating that the upload is for
Timo.
The second alternative is the following. If you cannot use ftp
upload, you can send your (.arc, .arj, .lzh, .zip, or .zoo; .zip
preferred) package uuencoded to me, or to my fellow moderator Harri
Valkama (hv@garbo.uwasa.fi). If it is a multi-part posting it would
be convenient (but not absolutely necessary) to use the same
begin-end system as comp.binaries.ibm.pc uses for binary postings.
Please note that if you are sending someone else's standard
programs, the first alternative (ftp to /pc/incoming) is very
strongly preferred, since it causes less work. The use of the
latter alternative is acceptable, however, especially if you are
sending the package on my invitation for evaluation and potential
inclusion, _and_ I have asked you to email (or you don't have ftp).
But you may, of course, pick your own choice. These are just our
general preferences.
We have many categories of programs, but as you can see from our
file lists, we are particularly interested in good MsDos utility
programs of various kinds. We are also very interested in keeping
the versions of the programs up to date. Your help and information
in this respect would be very much appreciated. On the other hand,
please note that some categories of material are outside the scope
of our archives. For example games are accepted only in special
cases. Educational games have been welcome, including good games of
wit. A very limited number of recreational games of exceptional
quality have been taken in as examples. Recreational Gif pictures
will not be accepted. Religious, political and comparable material
is not welcome at all.
See Appendix C for a sample session of uploading.
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Q: APPENDIX C: Uploading Programs by FTP, a Sample Session
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> ftp 128.214.12.37
Connected to 128.214.12.37.
220 garbo FTP server (from 4.3BSD Tahoe) ready.
Name (128.214.12.37:ts): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd /pc/incoming
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put myprog.zip
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for myprog.zip (128.214.12.3,3517).
226 Transfer complete.
local: myprog.zip remote: myprog.zip
659 bytes sent in 1e-06 seconds (6.4e+05 Kbytes/s)
ftp> close
221 Goodbye.
ftp> quit
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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun