mike@ccs.cc.umich.edu (Mike Dautermann) (11/14/90)
Hello! I'm sure quite a number of you have received my "form letter" that mentions the U-M Macintosh P D/Shareware archives.. but my mailbox has been a bit empty lately and newer programs have been getting harder to find, so I'll send this question to the group and see what kind of response I get.... I help to organize and maintain a very large Mac archive on the U-M mainframe consisting of Public Domain and Shareware programs, documents, etc. The archive can be reached by anonymous FTP to UM-MTS.CC.UMICH.EDU (the current IP address is 35.1.1.43, due to be changed sometime in the next few months) or it's shadow archive UB-MTS.CC.UMICH.EDU (35.1.1.47). The first thing you should do when you log in is to type CD PC2: (to switch to the Mac directory), and the index of abstracts can be retrieved by typing GET !INDEX. More detailed instructions on retrieving files can be found by typing "GET DO/DOWNLOAD2 DOWNLOAD.TEXT". We pretty much have everything the Sumex archives has, but we also have literally a thousand or so files that you won't find on any other prominent sites; so FTP'ing here might be a good alternative place to look for Mac software, if you like to try new things. I was wondering if any of you out there on the net have discovered any programs, resources, -- anything PD or Shareware -- on those pay-as- you-download services like GEnie, America Online & Compu$erve.. that you feel might be useful being added to an Internet site.. if you can upload a copy of the program and mail it along to me at UserW72N@um.cc.umich.edu, it'd be very much appreciated. Let me know what you think of the archives, any suggestions, ideas, programs.. I like to correspond with fellow mac enthusiasts, so feel free to write pages of text to me. Thanks for your help... . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Dautermann - U-M Ann Arbor, Dearborn and the World Mike @ ccs.cc.umich.edu