rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis) (12/27/88)
Over the years a number of unix tools' source has been posted to the net, with things like PD versions of lex, awk [I think -- not sure on this one] and new tools like patch, perl etc. If anyone's been hoarding all of these wonderful treasures, now's the time to tell your fellow Ontarians! :-) Reid -- Reid Ellis geaclib!rae@geac.uucp
moraes@csri.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (12/29/88)
In article <3508@geaclib.UUCP> rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis) writes: >Over the years a number of unix tools' source has been posted to the net, >with things like PD versions of lex, awk [I think -- not sure on this one] >and new tools like patch, perl etc. If anyone's been hoarding all of >these wonderful treasures, now's the time to tell your fellow >Ontarians! :-) In the anonymous ftp area of radio.astro (utradio), you'll find (among other things) In ~ftp/gnu: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 168702 Dec 27 22:53 binutils.tar.Z -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 408635 Dec 27 22:50 make.tar-3.27.Z -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 157098 Dec 27 22:49 gawk-2.02.tar.Z -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 206059 Dec 27 22:51 bison.tar.Z -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 91729 Dec 27 22:50 flex.tar.Z gawk is GNU awk - allegedly fully compatible with the AWK book, flex is a PD lex, which is almost as complete and much faster than lex, bison is GNU yacc, plus enhancements. Make is GNU make, plus enhancements, and binutils is miscellaneous GNU stuff - gprof, ld, ar, among others. In ~ftp/utils: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 111753 Dec 27 23:26 patch.tar.Z -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 533860 Dec 27 23:27 perl.tar.Z patch is patchlevel 12, perl is patchlevel 14, which may or may not be the most recent. Keeping up with Larry Wall's flow of patches is a little hard. In ~ftp/c: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 85643 Dec 27 23:25 id.tar.Z -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 137837 Dec 27 23:26 dbug.tar.Z id is an identifier database for C programs - saves grepping around, and answers questions like "where is this identifier used", "where is this function called", etc. Very very handy, especially for programs that span multiple directories. dbug is a set of debugging macros. There's lots of other interesting stuff in radio's ftp directories - see the earlier postings by Ian Darwin and Brian Glendinning.
tim@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing) (12/30/88)
In article <8812292051.AA05620@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> Mark Moraes writes: >In ~ftp/utils: > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 111753 Dec 27 23:26 patch.tar.Z > -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp other 533860 Dec 27 23:27 perl.tar.Z > >patch is patchlevel 12, perl is patchlevel 14, which may or may not be >the most recent. Keeping up with Larry Wall's flow of patches is a >little hard. This last statement is quite blatently false... it is impossible to keep up with the patches (at least, shortly after the release of some software it is.) According to the version that I have running here, the most recent patchlevel for perl 2.0 is 18. Mark: if you want the patches, I can mail them to you (or who ever it was that was maintaining the ftp'able stuff on radio.) -- Tim Pointing, DCIEM mnetor!dciem!tim / tim@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca
chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch) (12/31/88)
In article <1317@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca> tim@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing) writes: >This last statement is quite blatently false... it is impossible to keep >up with the patches (at least, shortly after the release of some software >it is.) According to the version that I have running here, the most recent >patchlevel for perl 2.0 is 18. 1) Yes, the latest Perl is patch level 18 (as of Friday last week...) 2) All of LWall's stuff and patches are available via ftp from jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov. Unfortunately, this is usually hard to get at; It appears to be several (overloaded) gateways back from the ArpaNet. -- C. Harald Koch NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca, chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu, chk@chkent.UUCP "I give you my phone number. If you worry, call me. I'll make you happy."
chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch) (12/31/88)
In article <8812292051.AA05620@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> moraes@csri.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes: [ much deleted ] >There's lots of other interesting stuff in radio's ftp directories - >see the earlier postings by Ian Darwin and Brian Glendinning. Unfortunately, very few sites in Ontario are actually on the Internet. In Toronto thre is UofT, DCIEM, and SoftQuad. The rest of us poor slobs only have UUCP access to the world. Are any of these archives available via UUCP (anonymous or otherwise)? If not, what would be the best way to transfer the stuff? There is a geac!utgpu connection, but gpu is low on telephone resources. Perhaps we should set up the decwrl archive server software on some well connected site for mail access to the software archives? -- C. Harald Koch NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca, chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu, chk@chkent.UUCP "I give you my phone number. If you worry, call me. I'll make you happy."
brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning) (12/31/88)
In article <1319@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>, chk@dretor (C. Harald Koch) writes: >[...] >Are any of these archives available via UUCP (anonymous or otherwise)? >If not, what would be the best way to transfer the stuff? [...] Radio currently doesn't have any uucp connections, and I don't plan to put uucp back on because it seemed to cause more problems than it solved for us. I would be willing to consider supplying (on a continuing basis) a well connected uucp site with an image of radio's anon ftp directories. Send mail if you're willing to redistribute. You probably really want a site with larger source directories, but maybe it's a start. -- Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca uunet!utai!radio!brian glendenn@utorphys.bitnet