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Article #42Re: IAFAfying existing archives
From: Markus Stumpf
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:03
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:03
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In article <1992Nov18.162748.27033@samba.oit.unc.edu>, ses@sunSITE.unc.edu (Simon Spero) writes: |> At the IAFA (Internet Anonymous FTP Archives) working group yesterday, |> a group of archive administrators agreed to work together to help prepare |> IAFA descriptions for existing packages in the archives. We'll be setting up |> a mailing list and wais archive, so that we only have to write a description |> of gnuplot once. We'll be setting up the list and starting cranking out the |> templates some time next week- all we need now are a few dedicated and rutheless |> accomplices... |> |> If you're interested in helping, please send mail to Peter Deutch |> (peterd@bunyip.com) or myself (ses@sunsite.unc.edu). We already have done some work, mostly in the X11 area! It is still the old format! We have a WAIS and gopher server to access the files! And you may even look in the index of our ftp-server for files ending in .idx! The addresses are: GOPHER: ------- Name=IAFA Descriptions - FTP.Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE Type=7 Port=70 Path=7/.wais-db/ftp-index Host=gopher.informatik.tu-muenchen.de WAIS: ----- (:source :version 3 :ip-address "131.159.0.110" :ip-name "wais.informatik.tu-muenchen.de" :tcp-port 210 :database-name "ftp-index" :cost 0.00 :cost-unit :free :maintainer "stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de" :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on Aug 19 16:53:13 1992 b y root@dsrbg2" ) anonymous ftp: -------------- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Please put me on the mailing-list! Ciao \Maex -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Markus Stumpf Markus.Stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!stumpf From: stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) Subject: Re: IAFAfying existing archives References: <1992Nov18.162748.27033@samba.oit.unc.edu> Originator: stumpf@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:03:15 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170315.22328@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Lines: 54