Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!twwells!comparc From: comparc@twwells.com (comp.archives) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: netlib server is available from my server Message-ID: <1989Jun18.052245.11340@twwells.com> Date: 18 Jun 89 05:22:45 GMT Sender: comparc@twwells.com (comp.archives) Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 133 Approved: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) In a fit of masochism (I'm dreading my uunet bill for this month :-), I've decided to make the netlib server available from the comp.archives server. The netlib server is also available from netlib@research.att.com; send it the request "send netlib from misc" if you'd rather get it from there. However, if you'd rather get it from here, you can. Rather than duplicate the instructions in my help message, I'll just append that help message to this one. Finally, does anyone know of any other servers out there besides the decwrl and netlib servers? --- The comp.archives database server is a rather stupid set of shell scripts to let you use e-mail to get information from the comp.archive database. At this time, all that is available are the archive site database, some informational messages, and some archive related software. What you do is to send a message to comp-archives-server@twwells.com The subject of the message is ignored; all commands go in the body of the message. The commands it recognizes are: path path-to-you You *must* include a path line somewhere in the message because the shell script will e-mail the response to that address. I run a smart mailer here with a complete set of maps, so if you are in the maps and trust the route from here to there, you can just put user@site for the path. For example, if you want the server response to go to user foo at address baz, and if baz is in the mail maps, your path line would look like: path foo@baz If baz isn't in the maps, or if you know that mail to you that relies on the maps is unreliable, you can make it something like: path well-known-site!site2!...!baz!foo I am directly connected to uunet, so that is a good site to start from. If you know a reliable route from my site, you can include the whole path (excluding twwells) and the server will follow that. Avoid using paths that contain a percent sign (%); these tend to be misinterpreted by many mailers. send help Send the latest version of this message. send sitereg Send a form you can fill out to register your archive. You fill out the form and send it to comp-archives-request@twwells.com send format Send a description of the comp.archives database entry format. Warning, it's about 13K. send index Send an index of the comp.archives database. The index has entries of the form: -- -- <keywords> ... When requesting information about a site, use <site name> in a "send site" command. The <access> field is a clue as to how you can get to the archive: words like uucp, ftp, mail, bbs, and fido. The keywords are there to give you a clue as to what is in the archive. send db.perl.shar There is a perl script to automatically extract the archive info from the DB: postings. This will get you that perl script. send db.serv.shar send decwrl.shar send netlib.1.shar send netlib.2.shar I archive three servers. The first is the server I use for comp.archives; it is a _very_ simple set of shell scripts (about 100 lines) and has no documentation. I also have the decwrl server and the netlib server. Because the latter two servers are large, you should not include anything else in your request when you ask for them. Also, the netlib server is over 70K; therefore, I split it into two separate parts. You should ask for each separately. send site site-name Send information about a specific site. You will receive both the database entry and the informational posting that went with it, if there was one. quit Cause any data after this line to be ignored. Useful if your mailer appends a signature to your message. The server is entirely automatic and does not try to resend failed mail, nor do I pay any attention to failed mail. If you don't get a reply after a reasonable time, or get a bad reply, send mail to comp-archives-request@twwells.com and tell me what the problem is. Server requests to this address will be summarily ignored. --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com send comp.archives postings to comp-archives@twwells.com send comp.archives related mail to comp-archives-request@twwells.com send comp.archives server requests to comp-archives-server@twwells.com