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From: hyc@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: comp.*.atari.st
Message-ID: <382a37fa.d130@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 18:32:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 18:32:00 1987
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References: <8710191910.AA16187@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <572@daisy.UUCP>
Reply-To: hyc@umix.cc.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
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In article <572@daisy.UUCP> turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) writes:
>> 
>> When someone says he has posted a program to comp.binaries.atari.st, just
>> what does that mean?  Where is it?  How does on access it?  Is it accessible
>> from arpanet?
>
>comp.binaries.atari.st and comp.sources.atari.st are moderated newsgroups
>(by yours truely) for the postings of (i'll bet you guessed) source programs
>and binaries fot the atari st series. If a program is posted by me it means
>that i have tested it (to the best of my abilities), put it into a packaged
>form (arc or shar), unpackaged it just to be sure, checksummed the pieces,\
>and finally posted it. 
>
>I am also currently mailing all postings to ...umix!hyc (Howard Chu) who 
>has promised to make them available on alternate nets.

umix is reachable from most internet sites, and sits on part of the NSFnet.
The full host name is umix.cc.umich.edu, address 35.1.1.10. I've been keeping
program postings in the 3 st groups, though I've been falling behind lately.
You can use anonymous ftp, then change directory to
	pub/atari/st
There are 3 subdirectories - bin, src, and sys. bin and src contain programs
from the binaries and sources newsgroups, and sys contains programs from the
general newsgroup. (I haven't been keeping up very well with sys.) All
postings are uudecoded. If it makes sense to, I ARC them and add extracts
from the original postings as README files... 
There is also a separate Index file within each subdirectory.
I haven't been archiving things for very long, so I don't have an exhaustive
collection of things yet. Also, I may have to move things to a different
machine sometime soon. Please don't try to access the archives during
business hours either, or we'll all be out an archive site...

On a different note... I've finally gotten most of Larn 12.0 working. The
only problem I have right now is that I can't Pexec a subshell. When I get
that figured out, I'll post the stuff...
  -- Howard Chu
currently at
	University of Michigan Computing Center, Unix Project
...but possibly moving elsewhere soon...