mikew@wyse.wyse.com (Mike Wexler) (08/19/88)
Submitted-by: mikew@wyse.com
Posting-number: Volume 1, Info 3
Archive-name: archives.1
Many people got messed up versions of xfig. It went out fine, but got
mangled along the way. When problems like this happen, get the source
from one of the archives sites, I don't have an archive or the time
to respond to 50 people a day who got part X of posting Y incorrectly.
I would like to know who got bad copies and would like a copy of the
news headers so I can try to track down the problem. I know that
decwrl, mcf, and uunet all have good copies. I don't list uunet as
an archive site. If you are connected to them you can ask the postmaster
for more info. At the end are detailed instructions on how to access
the archives. More sites will be listed there in the future.
Here is what each field means:
Person/Site: The name of the person and their mail address
Where: The general area they are located in
Service: How people will access their archive
Direct connect: Whether we can establish a UUCP connection for the
purposes of insuring that the archives are up to date.
Modems: For sites providing UUCP access, what types of modems are
available.
Person/Site: James Turner (turner@daisy):
Where: Mtn View, CA
Service: Anonymous UUCP & SnailMail tapes
Direct connect: Yes
Modems: 1200/2400, Telebits RSN
Person/Site: Rich Kulawiec (rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu)
Where: Indiana
Service: Anonymous FTP
Direct connect: No
Person/Site: Lee Daniels (lee@hhb)
Where: New Jersey
Service: anonymous UUCP
Direct connect: Yes
Modems: connect: 1200/2400
Person/Site: Paul Vixie (vixie@decwrl.dec.com)
Where: Palo Alto, California
Service: Anonymous FTP(decwrl.dec.com), UUCP to existing neighbors
Direct connect: No
Person/Site: Ron Heiby (heiby@mcdchg)
Where: Illinois
Service: Anonymous UUCP
Direct Connect: Yes
Modems: 1200 Baud
Person/Site: Sharan Kalwani (shan@mcf.uucp or mcf!shan@umix.cc.umich.edu)
Where: Michigan
Service: mail server and possible UUCP access
Direct connect: Yes
Modems: 1200/2400, Trailblazer
Person/site: David Herron (david@e.ms.uky.edu)
Where: Kentucky
Service: UUCP and anonymous FTP
Direct connect: ?
Modems: Trailblazer
Person/site: Russell Brown (russell@imtec)
Where: Peterborough, Cambrideshire, U.K.
Service: anonymous UUCP
Direct connect: Probably not
Modems: Steebek Quatro - V.22 V.22bis V.23
Person/Site: David Haynes (x-depot@geac)
Where: Markham, Ontario CANADA
Service: Mail server, tarmail, Anonymous UUCP, Tape Duplication
Direct connect: Yes
Modems: Telebits (X.25 soon)
Person/Site: Jamie Watson (mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw)
Where: Solothurn, Switzerland
Service: Anonymous UUCP, SnailMail tapes/diskettes
Direct connect: No.
Modems: Multitech 1200/2400
Person/Site: Lee McLoughlin (lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk)
Where: Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Service: Janet/PSS NIFTP, mail info-server
Direct connect: No
Modems: Indirectly thru' modems onto Janet 300/1200/2400
Person/site: Jeff Beadles (jeff@tekcsc.mkt.tek.com)
Where: Wilsonville, Oregon
Service: mail server, tapes, possible uucp
Direct connect: Yes
Modems: Trailblazer
Detailed instructions:
Person/Site: shan@mcf.uucp (Sharan Kalwani)
Sharan Kalwani at the Michigan Cancer Foundation (shan@mcf.uucp) has
set up a mail-based server. The archive resides on mcf's machine.
Comp.sources.x, comp.sources.unix and other stuff are available.
Mail to "archives@mcf.uucp" and supply the text
send index from comp.sources.x
for some help on how to access the files and an index of the files
currently online.
For human help, mail to shan@mcf.uucp or shan%mcf.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu.
Person/Site: lee@hhb (Lee Daniels)
The East Coast Xarchive is now available. The purpose of this archive is
to provide access to all publicly available X Window System based soft-
ware through UUCP. The archive contains a complete comp.sources.x direct-
ory and a copy of what can be found on expo/contrib and expo/pub. The
expo directories will be updated roughly once a month.
The archive can currently be accessed at 1200 and 2400 baud. I am hoping
to get a Telebit Trailblazer added in the near future.
I am setting up this archive to be pseudo annonymous. In other words, I
am giving everyone access, but I want you to ask for a connection using
the attached form. When you submit the form, I will authorize your host
to call the archive and I will send you back a copy of the L.sys entry
for the archive. By not making the archive totally annonymous, I will be
able to document the usage of the archive in order to help justify its
existence to the system administrator and upper management. I am hoping
to have enough information to help justify adding the Telebit Trailblazer.
I am not going to generally provide other access to the archive other than
UUCP but if you have a special need, send me mail and maybe something can
be worked out. Please fill out the following form completely and I will
send you the rest of the information.
Lee Daniels princeton!hhb!lee@uunet.uu.net
HHB Systems
1000 Wyckoff Avenue (201) 848-8000
Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
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From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Here's a copy of the current "howto.snarf" file for comp.sources.unix
archives I maintain. It will have to be modified for addition of the
"X" archives. Specifically, people will have to snarf something like
"~/unix/vol01/ZZZZ" or "~/x/vol01/ZZZZ" for the .unix and .x archives,
respectively. When it's set up, I'll send you an updated "howto.snarf".
Ron.
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05/17/88 How to snarf files from the comp.sources.unix archives
This file explains how to get files from the comp.sources.unix archive being
maintained by the Motorola Microcomputer Div. sales office in Schaumburg, IL.
This is not an official service of Motorola and may be discontinued any time.
The contents of the comp.sources.unix archive have been donated by the
submitters of the files to the Usenet comp.sources.unix moderator for free
availability throughout the community. Motorola assumes no responsibility for
the contents of these files, including the suitability for their use in any
application on any hardware. (Some of the material, for example is known not
to run on systems sold by Motorola.) Any questions about suitability, problems
with the software or documentation, or anything else related to the contents of
the files should be directed to the persons who submitted the material
originally (usually the authors).
(Now that I think I've covered my behind sufficiently...)
The comp.sources.unix archives are currently resident on a Motorola VME Delta
Series Model 2616 running System V/68 Release 3.0 named "mcdchg". This system
is used throughout the day, but one modem line has been made available during
evening and weekend hours for getting sources from the archives. When logging
in using these procedures, mcdchg will identify itself as "mcdch1". At some
time in the future, we may go back to a two-machine networked approach. Any
sites that already have an established uucp connection with mcdchg should send
me mail to have archive access "turned on" for your uucp login, as this
procedure will not work for you as is.
In order to ensure that the archive service does not interfere with real
work, the uucico for the archive login will be have its "x" permission bits
turned off at 8 a.m. Chicago local time (CST6CDT) and on again at 6 p.m. on
weekdays. Execute permission will be turned on throughout Saturday and Sunday.
The following description of how to set up your system's uucp configuration
files is based on the Honey DanBer UUCP (Basic Networking Utilities)
implementation, as it's the only one I've used that made any sense.
You may have to adjust what I say to fit your system's requirements.
The phone number for "mcdch1" is (currently) 1-312-576-7902. There is
a single line on that number. The modem will answer at 1200bps and will
require a carraige return to get a "login:" prompt. In response to the
login prompt, your system should send the login id, "pduucp". The password
is "public". As I said above, all this is turned off between about 8 a.m.
and 6 p.m. Chicago time Monday through Friday, so we can get our real work
done, so don't bother trying it during those periods.
The Systems file entry for doing this looks something like:
(For HoneyDanBer UUCP (BNU) users. Combine into a single line.)
mcdch1 Wk1800-0730,Sa,Su ACU 1200 chicago5767902
"" \r\c in:--in: pduucp word: public
Once you have your system set up to place an outgoing UUCP call to
"mcdch1", you can retrieve material from the archives. There are two files
that are excellent choices for testing your link. This file is file
mcdch1!~/howto.snarf. The current directory of what is stored in the
comp.sources.unix archives is found in the file mcdch1!~/directory.
To get either of these, execute a command like:
uucp mcdch1!~/howto.snarf !~/MYNAME/
uucp mcdch1!~/directory !~/MYNAME/
The directory is simply the output from "ls -sRxF" on the comp.sources.unix
archive disk hierarchy. It is updated just before 6 p.m. every day.
Here is an old sample from the directory:
total 15 0 directory 1 make.dir* 2 vol1/
./vol1:
total 941 16 ANSI.C.Z 12 C-Kermit.ann
41 Digest.Z 12 NIC 13 Smail.Z
1 UK-1.1/ 1 Xlisp1.4/ 20 bed.Z
./vol1/UK-1.1:
total 105 4 Anno 48 Part1.Z 31 Part2.Z 22 Part3.Z
This sample shows part of the first volume of comp.sources.unix. The entries
with a slash "/" at the end of their names are directories, whose contents are
detailed below (e.g. UK-1.1). The number preceding each name is the
approximate size of the file in 512 byte blocks. Entries whose name ends with
a ".Z" have been compressed by the program compress 4.0, which can be found
(in uncompressed form) in volume 2.
Be sure to look carefully to be sure you are getting the latest version
available. Also, look for "index" files to help find what you want.
NOTE: There are occasionally inconsistencies between the archive names we have
on disk and those published in the index by the comp.sources.unix moderator.
WARNING: These files are not stored under /usr/spool/uucppublic, so requests
that specify an absolute pathname, rather than one under "~" will almost
certainly fail.
WARNING: Please be aware that uucp commands asking for file names containing
wild cards will almost certainly not work. This is because all of the
implementations I know of submit a uux job to the remote system asking
it to run "uucp" on the wild card filename. Systems logging in with
"pduucp" are prohibited from executing "uucp" or other commands via "uux".
So, be sure to ask for each file separately.
Steve Pearse (wp3b01!pearse) sent the following script which helps make
the uucp commands easier to issue. I've modified it somewhat. I hope I
didn't break it too much.
##########################
# getmod - Get comp.sources.unix archives files via uucp
if [ "$1" = "" ]
then
echo "type files in form of [ N/file or N/dir/file ], where"
echo "N is the volume number (as in volN)"
echo "or getmod -l to get list of available files"
exit 1
fi
if [ "$1" = "-l" ]
then
uucp -m mcdch1!~/directory !~/receive/src.unix/
exit 0
fi
for file
do
uucp -m mcdch1!~/vol"$file" !~/receive/src.unix/
done
echo "requested file(s) $* on `date`" |tee -a $HOME/modreqs
exit 0
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If you can't figure out why the comp.sources.unix archive doesn't work,
re-read this file. If you still have trouble, talk with your system
administrator. If you are the system administrator, send electronic
mail to me at heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (mcdchg!heiby). Have fun! Ron.
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Mike Wexler(wyse!mikew) Phone: (408)433-1000 x1330