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From: gerrit@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit Huizenga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT Archives [Was: Newsgroup being archived somewhere?]
Message-ID: <11946@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 90 03:30:47 GMT
References: <123@isl.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: gerrit@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit Huizenga)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <123@isl.stanford.edu> awang@isl.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
points out that Gerrit has been sloppy and/or lazy and/or busy lately.
Rrn on my NeXT quit working sometime back and I've been reading news
elsewhere until I find time to look for the problem and as such haven't
kept the archived news up to date.  However, all of the news has been
saved and I've even split things into months again so everything should
be up to date for the moment.  Things are on the email server now and
should rdist to cc.purdue.edu tonight.

On a related note, several people have been asking for an updated,
comprehensive Index file lately.  It's a wonderful idea but I haven't had
the time to do it recently .  If someone wants to donate a more up to
date Index I'd be more than happy to install it.  In the meantime it
will have to wait until I find a spare evening to re-index.

For newcomers, cc.purdue.edu maintains a set of archives for the NeXT
machine including documentation, patches, porting information,
applications, demos, code samples, archives of this newsgroup,
Buzzings/NeXT User's Journal, the Tao newsletter and goodness knows
what else.  This information is available from either cc.purdue.edu
(128.210.9.2) or nova.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.7.22).  Nova.cc (my
machine) happens to have a couple of the bigger things because space is
a bit tight right now on cc.purdue.edu; however, most things can be
found in both places.

There is also an email server running on nova; send an email message to
archive-server@cc.purdue.edu with a subject of "help" for more
information.

And, as always, keep those submissions flying in.  Please send
submissions to next-archive@cc.purdue.edu; NeXT attachments are
preferred whenever possible.  If your submission is too large for
email, send me a note and we can work out other arrangements (for
instance I can pick things up from cs.orst.edu's submissions
directory).

Oh, and one of the more interesting resources in the archives is the
file ARCHIVES which contains a summary of other archive sites, several
of which hold the sources or binaries to large programs which have been
ported to the NeXT.  If you'd like an archive site of your mentioned in
there, send a note to next-archive@cc.purdue.edu and we'll take care of
it.

gerrit