Newsgroups: ont.archives
Path: utzoo!utgpu!radio.astro!brian
From: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Subject: Re: anon ftp from utradio
Message-ID: <1988Dec20.222812.4490@radio.astro.utoronto.ca>
In-reply-to: darwin@ai.toronto.edu (Ian Darwin)
Reply-To: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Organization: Radio Astronomy, University of Toronto
References: <88Dec20.145858est.38032@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Distribution: ont
Date: Tue, 20-Dec-88 22:28:12 EST

In article <88Dec20.145858est.38032@neat.ai.toronto.edu>, darwin@ai (Ian Darwin) writes:
>
>Here is some stuff that I've uploaded to utradio for anonymous ftp.
>Utradio is a.k.a. radio.astro.toronto.edu.

In case people are wondering why a Ian has been putting stuff on a low profile
machine like radio (radio astronomy, not the campus radio station) I thought
I'd explain what happened.

A year or so ago some people around here were talking about the problem of
people independently getting copies of the same software (TeX, gnuemacs,
little utilities etc). In a fit of enthusiasm I volunteered to be a UofT
sources coordinator. Fortunately, I was talked out of it :-)

I had started to set up an anon ftp directory. It still exists, and I'm happy
to have people put stuff there (if it's big let me know first, let me know
later in any event). If I have to roll stuff off onto tape I'll leave a list
of the stuff on disk, although I make no guarantees about how quickly it will
come back if someone wants it.

Currently the anon ftp directories contain a idiosyncratic collection of
things I've snarfed or saved over the past year or two. Plus some useful bits
other people have uploaded. There's no point looking for big things like X or
TeX, we don't have the disk to keep them on line, and others regularly get
these things anyway.

And  I will clean up the directories someday...
-- 
	  Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto
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