comparc@twwells.uucp (comp.archives) (04/10/89)
[I got the request for this in January and managed to lose it along
with the rest of that month. Sorry about that; here it is, better
late than never. :-) tww]
@ADD SITE
NM illian
EN bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) Mon Apr 10 02:31:36 EDT 1989
TM PST
TT Micronetics' NorthWest USENET Archives
AD illian!archive-request (Archive Administrator)
MA
CO uucp;uucp;/u/public;illian Any ACU 1200 15035919742 "" \n in:--in:-\b-in:--in: Uanon
CO uucp;uucp;/u/public;illian Any ACU 2400 15035919742 "" \n in:--in:-\b-in:--in: Uanon
CO uucp;uucp;/u/public;illian Any ACU 19200 15035919742 "" \n in:--in:-\b-in:--in: Uanon
IX uucp;index;10;4/10/89;;a listing of what's in the archive
KW binary-newsgroups,comp.archives,comp.os.minix,comp.sys.nsc.32k
KW compress,gnu,gnu-newsgroups,languages,mail,miscellaneous,newsgroups
KW patch,pathalias,postscript,source-newsgroups,tcp,unix-utilities
DE The NorthWest USENET Archives, sponsored by Micronetics, provides Free
DE Software Foundation GNU products and many others via UUCP only as a
DE redistribution service. Anything found here is only and exactly as it
DE would be found on the indicated hosts, were one to acquire it via
DE anonymous FTP or UUCP (like we did); or as it was when it flowed
DE past on the Usenet source distribution newsgroups. Micronetics takes
DE no responsibility for the contents of any of the distributions
DE available from us via anonymous UUCP.
@END
Welcome to the NorthWest USENET Archives
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This file (illian!~/how-to-get) describes how to get software from illian via
semi-anonymous UUCP:
Micronetics provides Free Software Foundation GNU products (and others)
via UUCP only as a redistribution service. Anything found here is
only and exactly as it would be found on the indicated hosts,
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it as it flowed past on the Usenet source distribution newsgroups.
Micronetics takes no responsibility for the contents of any of the
distributions available from us via anonymous FTP or UUCP.
How to reach illian via uucp
===============================
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There are limits on the duration of any one session. During the day,
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Please wait at least an hour before calling again.
Where the files are
===================
These items exist on illian for distribution purposes in compressed
tar form; exactly what you find on the indicated hosts in the
specified origin files. Most items are cut into pieces for the sake
of uucp sanity. This separation helps if your uucp session fails
midway through a conversation; you need restart only with the part
that failed, rather than the whole beast. The pieces are typically
named with a root word, followed by letter or number pairs like "aa","bj",
00, 08, or 47. Meaning, the pieces are all named with the root word,
followed by a dash or dot and the suffixes indicated, using the letters
or numbers inclusive between the two limits. All pieces but the last are
51,200 bytes long, and the fragmentary last piece has some smaller size.
NOTE: Some archives have a root size of 100,000 bytes.
A top-level index exists in /u/public/index that lists the archives present
and their paths. Where necessary, an INDEX is present in the top-level
directory of a sub-archive.
Paths that begin with "/u" or "/usr" are synonymous.
What to do with it all - building Emacs as an example
======================
Pick a night when you can afford to be at the office late. {:-)}
Arrange to have the files uucp'd to your site. Copying the complete
set of Emacs slices will take on the order of 5 hours at 2400 bps,
correspondingly more at 1200. Your mileage will definitely vary, by
as much as 20% on either side of that (intentionally vague) estimate.
If you successfully UUCP anything from illian, please send us mail
describing any problems you had, and (if possible) an estimate of how
long it took you and at what baud rate, so that we can keep these
figures up to date.
Note: DO NOT request the files to be transferred using a command like
% uucp illian!/u/public/emacs/emacs-18.52-\* /some/local/directory
because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux*
to run a uucp command on illian; it will fail for security reasons.
You must issue many uucp commands: one for each file in each
distribution you want, plus one for each diff file you want. They
will all get queued and executed in as few UUCP connections as
possible.
After the files have all showed up, you should extract the full
distribution of GNU Emacs thusly:
cat emacs-18.52-?? | zcat | tar xvf -
Voila`, you have GNU Emacs, ready to build and cause you both joy and
pain for the rest of your life. The other stuff available here is
unpacked similarly.
The `zcat' mentioned above is part of the `compress' distribution,
which you will have to get if you don't have it yet. Everything that
we distribute (except `compress' itself) is compressed with a 16-bit
Lempel-Ziv scheme. Some computers (notably those based on Intel
family microprocessors) are unable for memory segmentation reasons to
handle compression with a scheme higher than 12 bits. Since we can't
afford the space and time to provide both 12- and 16-bit distributions
via this mechanism, if you need things in a 12-bit compression format,
you will need to find a cooperative friend with a full 32-bit machine
to uncompress the distribution, and possibly recompress it for you in
12-bit format.
If you don't have compress, it is available as a "bootstrap" kit in
/u/public/compress. First, get the file /u/public/compress/bootstrap.shar.
It is an uncompressed shar archive which contains documentation and source
code for "uncompress". After compiling "uncompress", you will then be able
to retrieve the rest of the "compress" archive which is in compressed tar
format. Full instructions are in /u/public/compress/bootstrap.shar.
Files in /u/public/compress:
33665 Jan 14 09:41 bootstrap.shar
36435 Jan 14 08:33 compress4-0.tz
Miscellany
==========
This file of instructions exists as the file /u/public/how-to-get, and is
updated weekly. This happens much more frequently than the full set of
instructions are posted to comp.archives, so get it first to be sure of
what you are getting later in each night's UUCP transfer.
Unfortunately, the worst case might be that (e.g.) if you only get
part of a full distribution one night and a new version arrives during
the day, you might get some of the part-*s for the old version and not
know that the rest of your part-*s are from the new one. Get this
file to be sure.
The majority of the maintenance work on the archives is done on Sunday
morning. It is possible that a particular INDEX file will not agree with
an archive's contents for a small period of time. If you have a recent
copy of an INDEX file and are having problems retrieving a file on a Sunday
morning it may be due to maintenance activities. Please try again a couple
of hours later. If the problem persists, please let us know.
Someone invariably has problems with uucp. Feel free to send us some
mail; we'll be happy to help as much as we can, though that is usually
limited by distance and mail turnaround time.
Acknowlegements
===============
Thanks to the operators of following systems whose archives provide the source
of many of the archives present on illian.
bigtex n3dmc osu-cis
adobe rice nosc
Special thanks to the people at osu-cis whose "GNU.how-to-get" file provided
the basis for this message. (It was stolen from extensively) :-)
Cheers,
...{sun, tektronix}!nosun!illian!archive-request
...{nosun, qiclab, tessi}!illian!archive-request
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[Retrieved from /u/public/index. tww]
Top Level Index of the archives available on illian.
/usr/public/INDEX last updated 3-10-89
Compress V4.0
=============
Source: USENET net.sources
Root: /u/public/compress/*
Files:
33665 Jan 14 09:41 bootstrap.shar Uncompressed SHAR archive
36435 Jan 14 08:33 compress4-0.tz Compressed TAR archive
KA9Q TCP/IP package (Version 871225)
====================================
Source: n3dmc
Root: /u/public/ka9q
Index is in /u/public/ka9q/INDEX
MH Mail System, V6.5
====================
Source: bigtex!/usr3/sendmail/mh-6.5.Z
Root: /u/public/MH/mh-6.5.tz.??, parts 01 through 28 (28 parts)
Parts 01-27 are 51200 bytes; part 28 is 50665 bytes
RCS (Revision Control System) V4
================================
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/rcs-v4/rcsV4.tz.?, parts 1, 2, 3, 4
Parts 1-3 are 51200 bytes, part 4 is 40765 bytes
The support utility, bdiff, is available in /u/public/rcs-v4/bdiff.tz as a
single file of 13945 bytes.
MIT C Scheme
============
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/lang/scheme.tar.Z, parts 01 through 37
Parts 01-36 are 51200 bytes; part 37 is 42613 bytes
SDB (Small DataBase system)
===========================
Source: Joe Wingard, Tektronix, Graphics Workstation Division
Root: /u/public/SDB/sdb.tz, One part, 54712 bytes long
UNSW Prolog Interpreter
=======================
Source: University of New South Wales
Root: /u/public/lang/UNSW-prolog/prolog.tz.?, three parts
Parts 1 and 2 are 51200 bytes; part 3 is 31555 bytes
Little-Smalltalk Interpreter, Release 1
=======================================
Source: USENET net.sources
Root: /u/public/lang/lst-V1/lst-V1.Z.?, eight parts
Parts 1-7 are 51200 bytes; part 8 is 17471 bytes
XLISP Interpreter
=================
Source: USENET net.sources
Root: /u/public/lang/xlisp/xlisp.shar.Z-?, five parts
Parts are as listed below:
13968 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.shar.Z-1
14640 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.shar.Z-2
16042 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.shar.Z-3
14906 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.shar.Z-4
11291 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.shar.Z-5
1415 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.bugs.Z
4237 Aug 21 1985 xlisp.examp.Z
DITROFF to Postscript
=====================
Source: USENET comp.sources.unix
Root: /u/public/postscript/tpscript/tpscript.tz.?, three parts
Parts 1 and 2 are 51200 bytes; part 3 is 4677 bytes
Mail Pretty Printer (PostScript)
================================
Source: USENET comp.sources.unix
Root: /u/public/postscript/utilitys/mail2ps/mp.tz, 9677 bytes
Utility programs (Miscelaneous)
===============================
Source: USENET
Root: /u/public/util/*
Rogue-Monster SHAR 11426 Dec 28 10:51 Rshar.shar-1.Z
V2 of UNSHAR (uses sh) 7773 Aug 21 1985 unshar.shar.Z
Early X-modem for UNIX 6555 Aug 21 1985 bmodem3.c.Z
Count news articles 730 Dec 28 11:05 ncnt.sh
News path analysis progs. 10225 Dec 28 11:01 pathanal.shar-1.Z
UNIX to CPM text filter 1070 Aug 21 1985 tocpm.c
CPM to UNIX text filter 1062 Aug 21 1985 tounix.c
Print directory as tree 15705 Aug 21 1985 tree.c
PATCH Version 2
===============
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/util/patch/patch2.tz, 53259 bytes
PATHALIAS
=========
Source: USENET
Root: /u/public/util/pathalias/*
Version 9 of pathalias is available in two parts as:
27294 Jul 7 07:14 pathalias9.shar-1.Z
28968 Jul 7 07:14 pathalias9.shar-2.Z
A later version, enhanced by Peter Honeyman, is available as:
53726 Jul 7 07:17 pathoney.shar.Z
Miscelaneous
============
FAST Text Windows, ala curses 1148 Dec 28 08:58 DPY.ReadMe
13915 Dec 28 08:59 DPY.shar.1.Z
15541 Dec 28 08:59 DPY.shar.2.Z
Display location given areacode 4571 May 9 1988 areacode.c.Z
Routines for multi-column output 831 Aug 21 1985 cols.c
2993 Aug 21 1985 mc.net.Z
C programming macros for VI 3212 Aug 21 1985 cvi.src.Z
Date and Time routines 5758 Aug 21 1985 datetime.c.Z
Show changed PLAN and PROJECT files 5251 Aug 21 1985 gloria.shar.Z
Hash search routines ala Sys-V 10296 Aug 21 1985 hsearch.shar.Z
Perfect hash routines 7701 Dec 28 09:04 perfect.tz
Pattern matching routines 7321 Aug 21 1985 pattern.c.Z
Text to Phoneme converter 15333 Aug 21 1985 phoneme2eng.shar.Z
Bug fixes for above 4043 Aug 21 1985 phoneme.phixes
Logic reduction program 30502 Aug 21 1985 quine.c
Operating System in Small-C (DDJ) 12143 Aug 21 1985 smallOS.shar.Z
Display sniglet-of-the-day 4882 Dec 28 08:52 sniglet.shar
Stress level calculator 1538 Aug 21 1985 stress.c.Z
ARC V5.21 (archiving utility popular with IBM-PC crowd)
=======================================================
Source: USENET comp.sources
Root: /u/public/misc/arc521/arc521.tz.?, three parts
Parts 1 and 2 are 51200 bytes; part 3 is 36532 bytes
RED a screen oriented editor
============================
This editor was written in BDS-C and requires some work to translate it to
a modern version of the language. It is in four parts as listed below.
Root: /u/public/misc/red/*
10083 Aug 21 1985 red.shar-1.Z
7517 Aug 21 1985 red.shar-2.Z
9641 Aug 21 1985 red.shar-3.Z
6230 Aug 21 1985 spm-bdsc.Z
USENET NEWS Archives
====================
Root: /u/public/USENET/*
This is the root directory of the USENET NEWS archives. Archived
groups are:
alt/sources comp/archives
comp/binaries/ibm/pc comp/binaries/ibm/pc/d
comp/os/minix comp/sources/misc
comp/sources/unix comp/sources/bugs
comp/sys/nsc/32k gnu/announce
gnu/chess gnu/config
gnu/chess/bug gnu/emacs
gnu/g++ gnu/g++/bug
gnu/gcc gnu/gcc/bug
gnu/gdb gnu/gdb/bug
gnu/ghostscript gnu/gdb/bug
gnu/utils gnu/utils/bug
Within each of the listed directories is a file called INDEX. This file
lists the current contents of the archive. It will also note which
portions of the archive are available in off-line storage.
For example, to get the index for comp.sources.unix one would issue the
command:
uucp illian!/u/public/USENET/comp/sources/unix/INDEX ~uucp
The index is an uncompressed ascii file. The news articles are compressed
if they are indicated in the index as having a ".Z" suffix.
========== SOFTWARE from the FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (GNU) ==========
GNU Emacs MH support
====================
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/MH/mh-e.el.Z, one file of 32368 bytes
A GNU Button
============
A postscript file to print a 2" round "button".
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/gnu/button88.02.ps, one file of 6107 bytes
GNU Awk
=======
Source: prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gawk.tar-2.02.Z of Dec 27 1988, 18:02.
File is /u/public/gnu/gawk/gawk2.02.tar.Z, single file, 157,098 bytes.
GNU /bin Utilities
==================
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/binutils.tar.Z as of 29 Dec. 1988
Root is /u/public/gnu/binutils/binutils.tar.Z, single file, which is
169,266 bytes long.
Stuff here includes: Makefile, README, a.out.{encap,gnu}.h, ar.c,
gmon.h, gprof.{c,texinfo}, ld.c, nm.c, objdump.c, ranlib.[ch],
robotussin.h, size.c, stab.{def,h}, strip.c, and symseg.h.
GNU Bison
=========
Source: prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/bison.tar.Z as of Nov 7 1988. <via osu-cis>
Root: /u/public/gnu/bison/bison.tz.?, parts 1-5 [5 pieces].
Parts 1-4 are 51200 bytes long. Part 5 is 1259 bytes long.
GNU Chess
=========
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/gnu/chess/gnuchess.Z.?, parts 1 through 5
Parts 1-4 are 51200 bytes, part 5 is 17413 bytes
GNU Emacs
=========
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/gnu/emacs/emacs-18.50.tz.??, parts 01 through 76
Parts 01 - 75 are 51200 bytes; part 76 is 19557 bytes
GNU Emacs Lisp Manual
=====================
Source: osu-cis
Root: /u/public/gnu/emacs/lisp-manual/elisp.ps.Z-??, parts aa through af
Parts aa-ae are 100000 bytes; part af is 92629 bytes
The index to the elisp manual is in
/u/public/gnu/emacs/lisp-manual/index.ps.Z, and is 60025 bytes long.
GDB (the GNU Debugger)
======================
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gdb.tar-3.1.Z as of 31 Jan. 1989
Root is /u/public/gdb/gdb3.1-??, pieces aa-ah [8 pieces].
Part -ah is 29,553 bytes long.
GNU Assembler (GAS)
===================
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gas-1.31.tar.Z as of 28 Feb.
Root is /u/public/gnu/gas/gas-1.31-??, pieces aa-ad [4 pieces].
Part -ad is 77,157 bytes long.
GNU C Compiler (GCC)
====================
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/gcc.tar-1.34.Z as of 24 Feb.
Root is /u/public/gnu/gcc/gcc-1.34-??, pieces aa-ax [24 pieces].
Part -ax is 30,244 bytes long.
GCC requires Bison, since it uses a feature (@n) of Bison that's not
in Yacc. Remember to pick that up too - see the instructions above.
GDB, the GNU Debugger for C, is available separately - see above.
Be aware that current releases of gcc comment (in the source) that a
version of Bison not older than Sep 8 1988 is required for correct
operation. The version on illian is dated Nov 7 1988 and is OK.
I have been asked to continue to emphasize that "although ... GCC is
heading toward reliability, it is still a test release that generates
a few new bug reports a week... Generally people shouldn't yet use
GCC except to help debug it, or if they are interested in porting it
or writing new front ends for it, until it becomes more stable." The
compiler will be considered non-beta when it has successfully produced
a full running UNIX system from sources.
From: Ron Guilmette <nsc.NSC.COM!rfg>
The following are a set of patches needed to get GCC 1.28 running on VME532
systems.
/u/public/gnu/gcc/1.28-gnx-diffs length is 71248 bytes
GNU Ghostscript
===============
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/ghostscript-1.2.tar.Z as of 26 Feb.
Root is /u/public/gnu/ghostscript/gh-1.2-??, pieces aa-ac [3 pieces].
Part -ac is 84,391 bytes long.
Version 1.0 of ghostscript is available as:
Root: /u/public/gnu/ghostscript/gscriptV1.tz.?, Eight parts
Parts 1-7 are 51200 bytes; part 8 is 7799 bytes
A very brief description of ghostscript is available in README
GNU Diff
========
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/diff.tar.Z as of 26 Oct 1988.
File is /u/public/gnu/diff/diff.tar.Z, single file, 94,815 bytes.
GNU Grep
========
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/grep-1.3.tar.Z as of 1 Mar.
File is /u/public/gnu/grep/grep-1.3.tar.Z, single file, 91,615 bytes.
GNU Lex
=======
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/flex.tar.Z of 18 Nov.
File is /u/public/gnu/flex/flex.tar.Z, single file, 91,729 bytes.
GNU Sed
=======
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/sed-1.01.tar.Z as of 26 Jan.
File is /u/public/gnu/sed/sed-1.01.tar.Z, single file, 51,200 bytes.
GNU Tar
=======
Source is prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/tar-1.04.tar.Z as of 24 Jan.
File is /u/public/gnu/tar/tar-1.04.tar.Z, single file, 146,008 bytes.
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