Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!siesoft!davidto
From: davidto@siesoft.co.uk (David Tollow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xstuff: could be improved ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.082611.9783@siesoft.co.uk>
Date: 26 Mar 91 08:26:11 GMT
References: <9103221839.AA08139@shasta.tivoli.com>
Sender: usenet@siesoft.co.uk (NNTP Poster)
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf Systems Development Group, UK
Lines: 40

kk@shasta.tivoli.COM (Kerry Kimbrough) writes:

>TWIMC: Why doesn't xstuff honor my request to send? Or does it just *seem* like
>xstuff is not replying, because the response time is measured in months? Or, if
>the size of the reply is a problem, why isn't docs/xlib.text divided into more
>digestible pieces?

>PS: I know xstuff and I are communicating, because it will send me directories.
>It will even send me docs/xlib.text.2. But it won't send me docs/xlib.text.1
>(the big part). And, for me, this is a note of sadness in what would otherwise
>be a wonderful life.

I have had the same problems with xstuff, I get no response for days and
then finally I get a bounced message with something like "expo refused
connection for 3 days".

Another whinge is the out-of-date (or incomplete) nature of the indexes
that xstuff provides, or at least of the extremely limited number of files
which it tells me that it has available.

I am not on the Internet and hence have no easy means of ftp'ing. How much
stuff can I actually get hold of through the xstuff server ?  I would
really like to be able to get hold of things like a totally current
ICCCM, or similar documentation. I don't want to clog the mail system
with huge volumes of source code, just keep informed on developments.

I realize that xstuff is a public service facility, and is provided as
a concession and not a right. But it would be much more useful to
non-ftp'ers like myself either if more information was available on
its facilities, or if it was able to provide me with a more comprehensive
base of retrievable information.

Pleading (politely) for a more useful xstuff

David Tollow

Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems
Bracknell
Berkshire
England.