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Re: IAFAfying existing archives

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From: Markus Stumpf
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
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 Markus Stumpf                        Markus.Stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE 
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From: stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf)
Subject: Re: IAFAfying existing archives
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