WANCHO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Frank J. Wancho") (12/04/90)
Due to a scheduling problem for the construction of the required room
expansion to house the recently procured disk drives, there will be an
unexpected three-to-four-month delay in the installation of the
drives. This delay prompted some drastic action to make more long
overdue disk space available to the ever-growing collections on
SIMTEL20 after more than two years of managing saturated capacity.
After consultation with our advisors, the PC/Blue collection was taken
offline, to be restored when the new drives are online, together with
nearly 100 new volumes currently waiting for disk space to become
available. This decision was based on the fact that the existing
MSDOS and MSDOS2 collections represent a majority of the same files
contained in the PC/Blue collection and are generally newer versions
(without the overhead of keeping older versions, due to the release
scheme used by the PC/Blue Librarian).
Because of the disproportionate amount of space freed up by removing
the PC/Blue collection from PD1: (about half the capacity of PD1:),
several collections were moved from PD2: and PD3: to PD1:, and from
PD3: to PD2::
PD2:<MSDOS2*> -> PD1: (the subdirs will be moved to PD1:<MSDOS>
PD3:<HZ100> -> PD1:
PD3:<MISC*> -> PD1:
PD3:<CPMUG> -> PD2:
PD3:<ZSYS*> -> PD2:
Now, all MSDOS and related collections are on PD1: and all CP/M and
related collections are together on PD2:. The Unix-C and Ada
collections will compete for the remain space on PD2:, while the
Macintosh collection will compete for space on PD3: with the system
support and documentation files. Note: PD3: also contains a mirror of
the corresponding collections from NIC.DDN.MIL, namely all RFCs in
RFC:, most of the NETINFO: files, all DDN-NEWS: files.
We hope this temporary inconvenience will be offset by the value and
availability of many new current releases we have been unable to
provide until now.
--Frank