Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!shelby!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsh!hoswjc!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: Where THE STORE! went....what packages are available Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 90 19:09:23 GMT References: <296@mtune.ATT.COM> Sender: bill@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Reply-To: william_j_carpenter@ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Distribution: unix-pc Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 In-reply-to: jrw@mtune.ATT.COM's message of 6 Feb 90 00:45:40 GMT In article <296@mtune.ATT.COM> jrw@mtune.ATT.COM (Jim Webb) writes: jrw> had the time, but I don't :-( If "someone" out there has a box jrw> with the above number [20,000] of blocks free, I will be glad to jrw> help them set up a new store.... Or maybe, there is nothing of Heck, I might as well suggest some work for someone else! Since THE STORE! is really comprised of a collection of shell scripts that queue up uucp jobs to fetch the packages you "order", there isn't much needed to run your own version of THE STORE! You need: 1. Disk space to store it all. 2. Allow anonymous uucp. Lo and behold, a place with plenty of these *and* a UNIXpc archive ("att7300") *and* which allows anonymous FTP is Ohio State University ("osu-cis"). (Bonus: *and* is more centrally-located in the US than Freehold and Middletown, New Jersey :-) I don't know how either the osu-cis administrators or the "att7300" organizer feel about this, but it seems like a natural match to me. All you would need to do is stash the installables in some directory on osu-cis and then modify a copy of CATALOG+IN to know the osu-cis particulars. From there, things would work as before. Omagosh, with a new quasi-official THE STORE! one even imagines the possibility of new additions (to help out UUCPhobics who have UNIXpcs). -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill