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From: alan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: How can i access Lancs Pdsoft?
Message-ID: <1143@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jan 91 12:49:53 GMT
References: <8631@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Jan5.125110.1989@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Reply-To: pdsoft@uk.ac.lancs.pdsoft
Organization: Lancaster University Computer Centre
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A dialogue on accessing the Lancaster University software archive has
recently appeared in comp.sys.acorn and eunet.micro.acorn :

  >> Every now and then, someone mentions the Lancs PDSOFT archives.
  >> Can anyone tell me how to access these?
  >
  >FTP access is only available on Janet. To get stuff from outside
  >Janet (ie Internet), you will have to use the archive request
  >server.
  >
  >This is also normally available only on Janet; what you'll have to
  >do is mail pdsoft@pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk and ask to be registered
  >to use it.

No, please don't mail and ask us to be registered! I'm afraid we exist to
serve only the UK Academic Community, and if your host system is not in the
uk.ac name domain then you can't use us. Users in uk.ac domain can use the
archive without registration.

The material on this archive is mostly derived from US archives accessible
on the Internet and from USENET groups, so you can get most of it anyway.

Alan Phillips
Lancs PDSOFT Archive Manager