Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!ejablow
From: ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Assistance for archive users
Message-ID: <2777@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 22:18:31 GMT
Reply-To: ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow)
Organization: Big Electric Cat//SUNY at Stony Brook Math Dept.
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Keywords: manual pages kept seperately too
Summary: More than 1-line descriptions

In trying to use the various comp.sources archives, I find myself
finding and ftping a lot of programs on spec, given only the
one-line descriptions in the index documents.  Now, our department
has a small system, and we can't afford to keep everything I get; also,
we have no one interested in highly technical programs like
``dev.fd''.

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.


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