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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: patch program
Message-ID: <5851@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 00:50:55 GMT
References: <143309@tiger.oxy.edu> <1991Feb10.195951.27319@athena.mit.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>  Uunet is a good place to start when you're looking for software.  Ftp to it
>and retrieve ls-ltR.Z, which is a list of all the files in the archive. ...
>
>  Or, telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca, log in as "archie," and type "prog patch"
>when you get a prompt. ...
>
>  The point I'm trying to make, if it isn't obvious :-), is that there are a
>lot of places and ways to look for source code before posting a request to the
>net.  I'm posting this message instead of E-mailing it because I think it's
>useful to point this out on the net.

Yes, but not all those places and ways are accessible to everyone. 
Unless the guy in question has an account on a machine on the Internet
(and one that lets him have access *to* the Internet), he can't just
"ftp to [uunet] and retrieve ls-ltR.Z" or "telnet to
quiche.cs.mcgill.ca".  He may have to use UUCP to get stuff from
"uunet", which would require that he be on a site that's a UUNET
customer or that the site be willing to use the UUNET 900 number, or may
have to order the UUNET archive tapes.

There *do* exist anonymous UUCP archives, but as somebody working at a
UUNET customer I haven't really paid attention to them....