cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose) (04/13/91)
Reference the re-arrangement of the osu-cis archives, could I put in a plea for archive files not to exceed ~900K? A lot of people have a limit on the directory space they can FTP to (mine was 1 MB when I had FTP, and I was lucky - most of my friends were limited to 500K). I'd have liked to get hold of the MGR system, but its size of >1MB meant uucp and an expensive phone call. (It would be nice to keep under 500K, but probably not practical). On the subject of uucp, could the new README please be *accurate* with regard to filenames? I spent a frustrating evening and three or four calls trying to get hold of hdb docs from osu. From the most recent README the name was ~/att7300/STORE/HONEYDOCS. That clearly didn't exist, so I tried various combinations of capital/lowercase letters before asking for half-a-dozen of the most likely combinations. (The correct answer turned out to be a long shot - HONEYDOCS+IN.Z; not obvious to a novice). BTW, does the source group now exist? I've not seen anything on it. Good luck - Will
wouk@alumni.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk) (04/13/91)
In article <8541@crash.cts.com> cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose) writes: > >Reference the re-arrangement of the osu-cis archives, could I put in >a plea for archive files not to exceed ~900K? A lot of people have >a limit on the directory space they can FTP to (mine was 1 MB when >I had FTP, and I was lucky - most of my friends were limited to 500K). >I'd have liked to get hold of the MGR system, but its size of >1MB meant >uucp and an expensive phone call. (It would be nice to keep under 500K, >but probably not practical). > i ran into similar problems when i got gcc1.35 or so. when i tried to do something, i forget whether it was untar or uncompress i exceeded disk allotment. i moved the whole operation to /tmp where such restrictions seem not to apply, split the result, downloaded to the 3b1 and never had any system complaints. this was suggested by the sysadmin. your mileage may vary. -- arthur wouk internet: wouk@cs.colorado.edu