Newsgroups: comp.archives Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Subject: [tex] Aston server tex.ac.uk Message-ID: <1991Mar25.024550.19705@ox.com> Followup-To: comp.text.tex Sender: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Reply-To: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK References: Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 02:45:50 GMT Approved: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Archive-name: tex/archives/aston-tex-archive/1991-03-21 Original-posting-by: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Original-subject: Aston server tex.ac.uk Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) I posted an article a couple of days ago about the new Aston archive machine. More than two people (three, in fact) have asked me for the details, so I'll post them here. This is from UKTeX v91 n4 (25th Jan). (Has anything changed since then?) (I tried posting this message a week ago, but it apparently didn't make it out into the great unknown. Apologies if you've seen it twice.) Jeremy *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Jeremy Gibbons (jg@uk.ac.oxford.prg) Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* %< - %< - %< - %< - %< - %< - Cut here - %< - %< - %< - %< - %< - %< - %< Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 17:44:35 +0000 From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: UK TeX Archive now has its own dedicated host Ths UK TeX Archive, at Aston University, now has its own dedicated host. The new machine's sitename is Uk.Ac.TeX, and most users should find that this is now in their Janet NRS tables: if you are unable to contact it, complain to your system manager! The TeXserver is running on this machine; send mail to TeXserver@Uk.Ac.TeX with the first line of your message giving one of the recognized commands: if you don't know what these are, I suggest you send the command HELP in the first instance. The PUBLIC account is available for NIFTP access; details are: Site: Uk.Ac.TeX User: PUBLIC Password: PUBLIC First file: [tex-archive]00readme.txt An experimental browsing service has been introduced: place a PAD call to Uk.Ac.TeX and log in as user PUBLIC, password PUBLIC. The command language interface is a restricted subset of DCL, but some Unix-like synonyms are also available, such as cd, ls and more (latter uses Ctrl-Z to skip current file, no other `more'-like features available). Whilst browsing, if you want to send a file back to your own site, use the TRANSFER command; help is available (HELP CBS TRANSFER). However, the link to the X25 world only runs at 9600Bd, so you'll find that any transfers in progress will slow down your interactive session noticeably. As time passes, the help for this interactive access will be improved, and more Unix-like commands introduced for those more familiar with them than DCL. Contributions to the archive are encouraged; they should be sent using NIFTP to Uk.Ac.TeX, with username `Contributions' (null password), and a message via electronic mail to Archive-Contributions@Uk.Ac.TeX letting us know what you have sent; we will then move it to its final resting place and let you (and the rest of the world) know when it is ready through an announcement in the UK TeX Digest. Would all correspondents please note, that with effect from 7th January 1991, contributions to UKTeX should be sent to ; if the latter machine is unknown at your site, complain to your system manager, because it's been in the NRS tables since 10th December 1990, and should by now have propagated to all sites on Janet. Finally, many sites have reported difficulty in contacting the old archive machine, Uk.Ac.Aston.TeX. I understand that one of the two incoming X25 interfaces isn't responding reliably to all callers. Still, you've got the new machine now... Brian {Hamilton Kelly}