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From: owens@unix1.j6.eucom.mil (Kerry F. Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Need help for getting archives.
Message-ID: <41983@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:32:54 GMT
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> Hello everyone:
>         I am a student in Taiwan. Recently I have the need to get archives
> of minix by BITNET. But for the BITNET bandwidth in Taiwan (boud rate for
> Taiwan --> Japan is rather low, it seems only 9.6K). Everytime I send the
> commands "Index minix" to listserv@ndsuvm1 in BITNET, I got a reply :"
> "File "MINIX FILELIST" has been sent to you in Punch format." But I never
> receive this file. It seems that large file may be "throw away" at some-
> whare in the network. Many minix messages are also loss.(A few days age, a
> i386 compiler for minix have been sent to everybody join the minix-l, but I
> only receive the library and some readme files, the compiler itself are also
> loss).
>         Is there any body can tell me how to ask listserv@ndsuvm1 to sent
> file by cutting it into several mails? Or is there anybody can mail this
> index to me? Any suggestion will be preciated.
> 
>         Thanks.
>         Chen Chi-jung           email:R8503128@twntucc1.bitnet
>         Department of Electrical Engineering
>         National Taiwan University
>         Taipei,Taiwan

The index in REAL large.  I tried it once and got 2200 lines of data and
it was NOT a complete list.  The list I got only covered a 3 month time
frame.

I will send the minix introductory sheet.  Let me know if you get it.

If this works we can try more later.
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