glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu (Brian Glaeske) (09/29/90)
I have noticed that serveral people have asked about a mail based archive
server for Apple products. Well here is some information about such
a server that I help maintain.
------------------------[ARCHIVE SERVER INFO]----------------------------
An archive of public domain Apple II files are kept in a
manually-maintained archive on Plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64].
This archive is accessible via anonymous ftp, as well as with a
mail server.
ANONYMOUS FTP
Our site accepts FTP logins with the user "anonymous" and any
password (network conventions generally say you should use your
login name, but that is not required). This machine is also used
for theoretically useful purposes, such as mail, classes,
research, reading news and playing games. Thus, we ask that you
limit your usage of this to off-peak hours, (for us this is Mid-
night to 8 AM Central time (GMT -6), but we won't get mad if you
push this a bit earlier in the evening) and weekends.
USING THE MAIL SERVER
For those not fortunate enough to be on the Internet itself, we
run the Clarkson server to process mail requests. This is an ex-
tremely versatile program, that allows various encoding formats
(btoa, uuencode), compression (compress, arc, zoo) and splitting
of large files. Apple binaries are kept in Shrinkit format, and
will be encoded with uuencode. The server has been customized to
send HELP and Index files at any time, and all other files
between 23:00 and 08:00 local time. If you submit a request that
contains *any* file that is not a Help or Index file, the entire
request is queued until late night (currently 23:00 local time,
but that may be moved to earlier hours of the morning if it
proves to be a large load on the system).
The addresses for the server are:
archive-server@plains.nodak.edu
{umn-cs, ogicse, uunet}!plains!archive-server (UUCP)
fileserv@plains (Bitnet)
Note to Bitnet people: this server is not 'logged on' to the
machine, so you cannot send it interactive messages. The
'fileserv' alias was added for those of you who do not run the
Croswell mailer, but you must still use something that is detect-
able as mail (such as a NOTE). Bitnet files will drop into our
bit bucket, unprocessed, since there is no real user by either of
these names.
To obtain a list of the files, the INDEX command is used:
index [ <directory> ]
where <directory> is a directory under our ~ftp/pub login (empty
for the main directory). There are several other directories of
programs for Microcomputers, current volumes for comp.sources.*
and some of the Free Software Foundation's products.
The SEND command is used for having files sent to you, such as
in:
send appleII/ls-l
Use the command:
help
and you will be enlightened.
The server accepts commands in mixed case, but all directory/file
names are case significant (just like appleII not appleii).
A cautionary note: this server is somewhat 'probational'; that
is, if it turns out to be a serious load on our CPU, mailer,
postmaster, and network links then it will be shut down
Use with moderation.
This archive is maintained by Brian Glaeske,
<glaeske@plains.nodak.edu>, at North Dakota State University,
Fargo, ND USA (46 52 N / 96 48 W city)
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