Access to osu-cis for UNIX PC Archives, by Telebit, v.32, or 24/1200

[Lenny Tropiano]

I think I get the question, "Where can I get ..." more than any other
question posed to me.  I don't have the facilities to keep megabytes of 
archives online (unless someone donates some Maxtor 2190's, more modems and
more phone lines) :-)  

Ohio-State University (osu-cis) has been the "official" place for UNIX PC
Archives for quite some time.   What's great about this site is that it
offers access via dialup uucp with every variety of modem imaginable at
every variety of speed.  It also provides Internet access for anonymous
ftp retrieval.

Since Brant Cheikes resigned from the Ohio State University UNIX PC Archive
maintainer, nothing has been updated since June 10, 1990.  I know there 
were several people who said they would take over his work, but that was
the last we heard from them.  If no one "stands" up and takes over it,
and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain
the archives ...  Let me know folks!

Anyhow, for those who ask the 1 million dollar question, here's how you get
to the archives and here's what you do FIRST once you get there!

|From: karl_kleinpaste at cis.ohio-state.edu
|Subject: Re: uucp info for osu-cis
|
|This file (osu-cis!~/GNU.how-to-get) describes how to get the
|following software from osu-cis via semi-anonymous UUCP:
|
|C++ Test Suite	Compress	Deliver 2.0	GNU Binary Utilities
|GNU Assembler GNU Awk	GNU Bash	GNU Bison
|GNU C++ Compiler	GNU C++ Library	GNU C Compiler	GNU Chess
|GNU COFF hacks	GNU CPIO	GNU DBM	GNU Debugger	GNU Diff
|GNU Emacs	GNU Emacs Ada support	GNU Emacs Franz interface
|GNU Emacs Lisp Manual	GNU File Utils	GNU Find	GNU Finger
|GNU Go	GNU Gperf & Cperf	GNU Grep	GNU Indent	GNU Lex
|GNU Make	GNU Pins & Art	GNU Plot & Plot2PS	GNU Roff	
|GNU Sed	GNU Tar	GNUS	Ghostscript	Gnews	Ispell	JOVE	
|KA9Q		Kermit	M3	MIT C Scheme	Mg2a	NNTP	News	
|Oops		PCRRN	Patch	Pathalias	Protoize	
|Proxy ARP	RCS	RFCs & IDEAS		RN	SB Prolog	
|STDWIN	Sendmail	Smail	Smalltalk	Tcsh	VM
|
|There's a lot of other available miscellany that isn't explicitly
|listed here.  You can find out about it in the file osu-cis!~/ls-lR.Z
|
|The Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State
|University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products (and others)
|via UUCP only as a redistribution service.  Anything found here is
|only and exactly as it would be found on the indicated Internet hosts,
|were one to acquire it via anonymous FTP (like we did); or else saved
|it as it flowed past on the Usenet source distribution newsgroups.
|OSU CIS takes no responsibility for the contents of any of the
|distributions described in this message.  See the Distribution
|document (emacs/etc/DISTRIB when you unpack and build Emacs) and the
|GNU Emacs General Public License (emacs/etc/COPYING, similarly).
|
|Much of the GNU software is in beta-test.  For a list of the current
|statuses (stati?), ask gnu at prep.ai.mit.edu for a copy of the latest
|FSF order form.
|
|How to reach osu-cis via uucp
|===============================
|Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-cis:
|
|#
|# Direct Trailblazer
|#
|osu-cis Any ACU 19200 1-614-292-5112 in:--in:--in: Uanon
|#
|# Direct V.32 (MNP 4)
|# dead, dead, dead...sigh.
|#
|#osu-cis Any ACU 9600 1-614-292-1153 in:--in:--in: Uanon
|#
|# Micom port selector, at 1200, 2400, or 9600 bps.
|# Replace ##'s below with 12, 24, or 96 (both speed and phone number).
|#
|osu-cis Any ACU ##00 1-614-292-31## "" \r\c Name? osu-cis nected \c GO \d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon
|
|Modify as appropriate for your site, of course, to deal with your
|local telephone system.  There are no limitations concerning the hours
|of the day you may call.
|
|We are deeply grateful to Philips Components of Eindhoven, the
|Netherlands for the donation of a Trailblazer Plus and a Codex 2264
|for use by the community at large.
|
|Where the files are
|===================
|Most items exist on osu-cis for distribution purposes in compressed
|tar form, exactly what you find on the indicated hosts in the
|specified origin files.  Most items are cut into pieces for the sake
|of uucp sanity.  This separation helps if your uucp session fails
|midway through a conversation; you need restart only with the part
|that failed, rather than the whole beast.  The pieces are typically
|named with a root word, followed by letter pairs like "aa" and "bj,"
|meaning that the pieces are all named with the root word, followed by
|a dash and the suffixes indicated, using the letters inclusive between
|the two limits.  All pieces but the last are 100,000 bytes long, and
|the fragmentary last piece has some smaller size.
|
[...]

Anonymous FTP transfer from Internet is available at:

$ ftp cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu 		-or-
$ ftp 128.146.8.62

Once you add the appropriate Systems entry (or ftp to osu), retrieve
the file ~/att7300/README.Z and ~/att7300/STORE/README.Z  (or if you're
ftp'ing cd into /pub/att7300 [and /pub/att7300/STORE] and retrieve 
README.Z )

Issue these commands, it helps ...

$ uucp -m osu-cis!~/att7300/README.Z !~/README.Z
$ uucp -m osu-cis!~/att7300/STORE/README.Z !~/STORE_README.Z

These two files explain what's available in the UNIX PC archives and 
"THE STORE!" UNIX PC archives.   As you can see, from what Karl said above,
you can retrieve much more than just UNIX PC software here ... 

For more information on what's there, get a directory listing ...

$ uucp -m osu-cis!~/ls-lR.Z !~/

Over a Trailblazer (19.2K), or v.32 (9600) modems the file transfer times are
rather trivial ... 

Happy snarfing,
Lenny

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