lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (01/13/91)
Archive-name: languages/perl/nutshell-perl/1991-01-12
Archive-directory: uunet.uu.net:/nutshell/perl/ [192.48.96.2]
Original-posting-by: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Original-subject: Re: Book examples on uunet (anonymous ftp)
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)
In article <91Jan12.012609est.22192@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
: Dunno if it's official yet, but the examples from The Book are
: available on uunet.uu.net in nutshell/perl/perl.tar.Z
I think you can call it official.
: I'm sure they're much more interesting when you have the book in
: hand.
I certainly HOPE so. :-)
: Glad to see the poetry made it in.
: I guess mailagent didn't make it Larry?
Nope. We couldn't put everything. You get the super-duper passwd program tho.
The one I really wish I could throw in (but it wouldn't really be all that
useful to most people) is kybble, a bit editor that the Magellan folks are
using to patch the bit slips and complements in the telemetry data off of
Tape A on the spacecraft. That's the main reason patch 42 contains new
binary and hex pack/unpack options.
Larryedwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (01/16/91)
Archive-name: sites/archive.cs.ruu.nl/access/1991-01-15 Archive: archive.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/README [131.211.80.5] Original-posting-by: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) Original-subject: Re: Book examples on uunet (anonymous ftp) [and on...] Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <91Jan12.012609est.22192@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes: | Dunno if it's official yet, but the examples from The Book are | available on uunet.uu.net in nutshell/perl/perl.tar.Z European sites might prefer to get this from our archive, instead of crossing the Atlantic. I've put the Perl examples in the file: pub/UNIX/perl-book-examples.tar.Z It's been a long time, so I guess it's just about time to advertise our archive-site again ;-) Here are the details... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **> 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, Perl, 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). thanks for your time, --[ Edwin ]-- -- 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]