edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (02/23/91)
Archive-name: hardware/dat/hpux-dat-install/1991-02-18 Archive: archive.cs.ruu.nl:/HP-UX/dat-install.txt [131.211.80.5] Original-posting-by: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) Original-subject: Re: Using the DDS drive Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In <1991Feb14.233141.10571@objy.com> bruce@opus.objy.com (Bruce Reed) writes: | I would appreciate some help from anyone who has experience using the | HP DDS drive with standard UNIX backup utilities, e.g. tar and cpio. I'm sorry to see that you didn't include any information on how your DAT is connected (SCSI or HPIB) nor any information on how you've setup the device files (major/minor device numbers). This information would have helped much in answering your question. However, you might be very interested in a document written by Paul Perlmutter (@ Hp.Com) called the "DDS Application Note". It is available from our anonymous FTP archive server as well as our mail-server. How-to-use details below, look for the file: "HP-UX/dat-install.txt". hope this helps, --[ Edwin ]-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **> This is my ``standard-answer'' to requests for free software that I **> think our archive-service can fulfil. Usually, I mail this message **> directly to the person who queried, but since people keep on asking, **> I've decided to post this message as a follow-up on these kind of **> queries in the relevant newsgroup(s) every once a month or so... We, Computer Science department, Utrecht University, are running an anonymous FTP server on one of our systems. I should say that we're NOT archiving all of "comp.sources.*". Instead, we're putting a lot of effort in trying to keep the archive up-to-date. Here are the details on anonymous FTP: ====================================== Site: archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] Login: "anonymous" or "ftp" Password: your email address (you@your_domain) Usage: see the ftp(1) manual on your system Hot topics: TeX stuff, Atari-ST software, Elm 2.3, NN 6.4, UNIX software, sundry documentation, ... Important: to get a description of what exactly is in the archive get the file "pub/ls-lR.Z". Also, in each sub-directory there is a file named "INDEX" that describes the software in that directory (what version, what else you need, who wrote it, etc.). Although anonymous FTP is our main goal, we're also running a mail server, because we *know* how you feel when there's plenty of beautiful software around that you can't reach. We've been in that situation for a long long time... All we ask from you is that you at least *try* to keep big requests out of the prime-time hours (nights and weekends are fine). Okay, now for how to access our mail server: ============================================ 1) The mail server can be reached at the address mail-server@cs.ruu.nl or the old-fashioned path alternative ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server 2) The mail server understands a couple of commands, all commands must be in the message body. The first thing you might want to do is ask it for help: send HELP 3) A complete "ls-lR" listing of the archive is kept in the top-level directory, it will be updated every night. To get it, say: send ls-lR.Z Note that compressed files will be sent UUEncoded by default; we use the UUE that was posted to the net some time ago. In every subdirectory you'll find a "INDEX" file, describing the contents of that directory. So, e.g. to find out what's in the NN-6.4 directory, say: send NN-6.4/INDEX 4) Last, assume you want to get the UUE/UUD package mentioned above: send UNIX/uudecode.shar 5) If your mailer appends your fancy signature file, you might want to mark the end of the mail-server commands-list by putting an end command above the signature file. This will prevent "unknown command" messages from the mail-server program. That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]