Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!ken
From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Assistance for archive users
Keywords: manual pages kept seperately too
Message-ID: <6388@sol.ARPA>
Date: 30 Jan 88 20:48:26 GMT
References: <2777@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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In article <2777@dasys1.UUCP> ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) writes:
|Perhaps it can be arranged for each volume to have a special shar-file
|kept for it that would include the manual pages of all the programs
|therein.  Then, a user could make a more intelligent decision about
|what files to ftp or uucp from the archives.
|
|P.S.  My machine is not fully set up for uucp yet; I use others for
|communications.  Could somebody publish a master list of where the
|various archives are kept, including their Internet numbers?  I can't
|get to the Sun archives because the machine I ftp from doesn't have
|titan.rice.edu's number or entry in /etc/hosts.  I'd like a list of
|where each micro's PD programs are kept, and how to get there.

Yes, yes, yes. Where to get free software via ftp/uucp/whatever seems
to be word-of-mouth knowledge. I know quite a few machines with goodies
(Kermit, X, CP/M, etc) but I'm sure we all would love a list of lists.
If somebody would volunteer to maintain this list, I'd be glad to send
in what I know.

	Ken