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Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:34
Acorn ftp and mail-server archives (fortnightly posting)
Author: gpvos
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:34
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:34
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Archive-name: acorn/archives
Last-modified: 19 September 1992
This is the regular list of archive servers that contain files related in
any way to Acorn computers, i.e. the Atom, BBC, Electron, Archimedes and
R-series, and maybe some even rarer types of machines. Mainly it's about the
Archimedes and R-series, though.
This list is maintained by Gerben Vos <gpvos@cs.vu.nl>.
For every server, the name and the type of files it contains is indicated,
along with its numeric address in the case of Internet ftp servers and Janet
pads, and the email address of the maintainer, if known.
Below that follows a list of the directories to look for with a short
description of their contents. The Newcastle server is an exception to this
rule, since it has only one big flat directory.
Below the main list is a short list of ways to use services that aren't
normally available to you, e.g. Internet ftp from Bitnet or Janet, and Janet
connection from the Internet. Don't abuse these inter-network connection
services, they are already being heavily used and someone might decide they're
too overloaded and shut them down.
Also, when requesting files directly from servers, always try to use a
server that is as near as possible to you. And keep in mind that the people
running these machines are doing you a favour, so don't abuse their services.
The mail server in Newcastle is being swamped by requests at the moment. Use
an alternative, if possible.
Changes since the last update:
- There is a new server: ftp.uni-kl.de .
- pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk has moved to micros.hensa.ac.uk, username and password
are "hensa"; this has not been updated in the list below!
Legend: A=Archimedes, B=BBC/Electron/Master, T=Text documents,
*=new items in store since last month
?=couldn't reach it, may be temporarily down
FTP SERVERS:
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[ABT]? actrix.gen.nz (192.100.53.17) (banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
/files/archimedes/
acorn Acorn modules, files and news
archivers Archiving utilities
CLIutils Non Desktop utilities
comms Communications applications
demos Demos
desktop Desktop utilities
editors Editor applications
educate Educational applications
emulators PD emulators for the Arc
fileutils File utilities
fonts Fonts/font applications
games Games
graphics Graphical tools/utilities
languages PD languages for the Arc
sound Music/sound applications
printutils Printer utilities
progutils Programming utilities
unix Unix ports to the Arc and any RiscIx stuff
virus Virus killer programs
/files/bbc/
archivers Archiving utilities
comms Communications applications
editors Editor applications
educate Educational applications
fileutils File utilities
games Games
graphics Graphical tools/utilities
sound Music/sound applications
printutils Printer utilities
progutils Programming utilities
This archive is only reachable from within New Zealand. It holds public
domain software for all makes and types of Acorn machinery as well as the
latest updates of release software from Acorn (Shared C Libraries and
similar things).
[A..]* citi.umich.edu (?) (?)
/afs/alw.nih.gov/service/news/comp/binaries/acorn: comp.binaries.acorn feed
[A..] ftp.cs.kun.nl (131.174.32.1) (hans@cs.kun.nl)
/pub/ArMaTuReS: ArMaTuReS (TeX)
This is probably not the newest version. See also rusinfo and Newcastle.
[..T]* ftp.eu.net (192.16.202.1) (info-admin@eu.net)
/newsarchive/comp/sources/acorn: Two months' worth of comp.sources.acorn
/newsarchive/comp/sys/acorn: Two months' worth of comp.sys.acorn
[..T]* ftp.nluug.nl (192.16.202.21) (info-admin@nluug.nl)
/pub/newsarchive/comp/sources/acorn: Two months' worth of comp.sources.acorn
/pub/newsarchive/comp/sys/acorn: Two months' worth of comp.sys.acorn
[...]? ftp.uni-kl.de (131.246.9.95) (m_sattle@tangram.informatik.uni-kl.de)
/pub/acorn: Acorn stuff
[..T]* ftp.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.100) (rcpieter@win.tue.nl)
/pub/usenet/
comp.sys.acorn: comp.sys.acorn archives
comp.sys.acorn.advocacy: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy archives
comp.sys.acorn.announce: comp.sys.acorn.announce archives
comp.sys.acorn.tech: comp.sys.acorn.tech archives
/pub/comp/sys/acorn.old: Old comp.sys.acorn archives
[A..] isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp (130.54.20.1) (?)
/.u2/oldnews/comp/binaries/acorn: comp.binaries.acorn archives
/.u2/oldnews/comp/sources/acorn: comp.sources.acorn archives
[A..] isgate.is (130.208.165.63) (archive-management@isgate.is)
/pub/Usenet.bin/comp.binaries.acorn comp.binaries.acorn archives
[..T]* lcs.mit.edu (18.26.0.36) (?)
/news/comp/binaries/acorn: A few days' worth of comp.binaries.acorn
/news/comp/sources/acorn: A few days' worth of comp.sources.acorn
/news/comp/sys/acorn: A few days' worth of comp.sys.acorn
/news/eunet/micro/acorn: A few days' worth of eunet.micro.acorn
[A.T]* metro.ucc.su.oz.au (129.78.64.2, 129.78.139.4) (s2105995@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au)
/pub/archimedes: Archimedes programs
Largely a mirror of the Manchester archive.
[???]? mucket.vast.unsw.edu.au (149.171.224.9) (s2105995@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au)
/incoming/acorn: Acorn upload directory
Seems to be unavailable.
[AB.]* pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk (148.88.64.2) (pdarch@pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk)
/micros/arch/riscos/a: Archimedes programs
/micros/arch/riscos/tools: UUDecode, Arc, SparkPlug2
/micros/bbc: 6502 programs
/kermit/
ac: Kermit for the Cambridge Workstation
ar: Kermit for the Archimedes (under Arthur)
bbc: Kermit for BBC B, B+, B+128 and Master
cp: Kermit for BBC+Z80 second processor
[A..]? reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (192.48.107.50, 129.187.230.225) (ftp@e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
/public/GNU/News/gdb/acorn_arm: gdb (Acorn diffs only)
[AB.]* rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) (scheurich@rus.uni-stuttgart.de, zrzm at ds0rus1i)
/soft/acorn/
6502/beginner: Hexadecimal encoder/decoder
6502/lang: Languages (Assembler and Small-C)
minix: ARM-Minix
riscix/unixtools/gnu/gdb: gdb (Acorn diffs only)
riscos/antivirus: Virus killers
riscos/archivers: Some archivers
riscos/beginner: Some of the same and other archivers
riscos/comm: Communication packages and utilities
riscos/comm/msdos-disk: MS-DOS disk readers
riscos/editors: Editors
riscos/etc: Miscellaneous
riscos/lang: Languages, libraries, debuggers
riscos/maths: Mathematical programs
riscos/problems: Programming problems & answers
riscos/unixtools: Many ported Unix and GNU tools
riscos/util: Utilities and fonts
riscos/util/sys: System utilities
/soft/incoming/acorn: Upload directory
/soft/tex/machines/acorn/riscos/
oldtex: ArMaTuReS (TeX), old version
texadditions: TeX-related files
texupdate: Updates to the old version
[.B.]* shiraz.ohm.york.ac.uk (144.32.136.36) (ian@ohm.york.ac.uk)
/pub/BBC BBC programs
/pub/BBC/Submissions Upload directory
This is the archive of the BBC mailing list, bbc-list@ohm.york.ac.uk .
[A..] titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (134.60.66.21) (borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de)
/pub/soft/minix: ARM-Minix
[AB.]? tolsun.oulu.fi (130.231.96.16) (?)
/incoming/acorn: BBC and Archimedes software
/pub/acorn: BBC and Archimedes software, ularn
I can't log in to this one at the moment.
[A..]* uts.mcc.ac.uk (130.88.200.3) (zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk)
/pub/riscos: Archimedes software
/incoming/riscos: Upload directory
All the software is public domain or shareware. Most of it has been
archived with the !Spark 2 application. !SparkPlug 2 is available.
[AB.] watsun.cc.columbia.edu (128.59.39.2) (?)
/kermit/
a: Kermit for BBC+Z80 second processor
c: BBC Kermit and 65C02 assembler,
and Kermit for the Cambridge Workstation
MAIL SERVERS:
=============
[ABT]? info-server@comp.vuw.ac.nz (banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
topic: archimedes See actrix.gen.nz under "ftp servers"
topic: bbc See actrix.gen.nz under "ftp servers"
This archive is only reachable from within New Zealand.
Requests are of the form:
request: sources
topic: <machine> <filename>
request: end
Where <machine> is either "archimedes" or "bbc", and <filename> is the full
pathname of the file. An index is available under the filename "index".
Indices per section with file descriptions are available as
<directoryname>/List. Info on how to access the system can be obtained under
the filename "help".
[A..]* info-server@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk)
topic: archimedes Lots of Archimedes programs
Don't be fooled by the short listing of this archive; it has been a close
companion to the Acorn newsgroups for many years and often has the latest
versions. It contains public domain software for ARM based systems
(Archimedes, A3000, Rxxx etc), mainly put together from Usenet postings and
private submissions.
The info server is currently in danger of falling victim to its own
popularity (it's mailing out over a gigabyte per month at the moment).
Requests are of the form:
line-limit 1000
request: sources
topic: archimedes <filename>
request: end
An index is available under the filename "index". There is also an index of
(ar)minix software available as "am_index", and a list of the last 50 files
added to the archive as "tail_index".
If you don't receive a reply, try including a Reply-To: line in your mail
header, specifying your e-mail address (or edit your From: line). If that
doesn't work, try specifying the domain part of your address in reverse
order (e.g., gpvos@nl.vu.cs), or route it via a major Internet backbone,
(e.g., gpvos%cs.vu.nl@mcsun.eu.net). Mailers in the UK generally get
confused by addresses starting with "cs", which they think means
"Czechoslovakia", but this can happen with any address which has a top level
domain at both ends.
[AB.]* archive-server@pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk (pdsoft@pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk)
/micros/arch/riscos/a: See under "ftp servers".
/micros/arch/riscos/tools: See under "ftp servers".
/micros/bbc: See under "ftp servers".
/kermit: See under "ftp servers".
Requests are of the form:
send <filename>
You can obtain a help file using the single-word command "help".
[AB.]* mail-server@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (scheurich@rus.uni-stuttgart.de, zrzm at ds0rus1i)
/soft/acorn: See under "ftp servers".
/soft/incoming/acorn: See under "ftp servers".
/soft/tex/machines/acorn: See under "ftp servers".
Requests are of the form:
[uuencode] # Only for binary files
send <filename> [<filename>...]
Use "send /soft/acorn/riscos/README" and "send /soft/acorn/HOW2TRANSFER" for
more information and an index. There are many options, use "help" for a
summary, or "send help" for a detailed description of the archive server.
JANET FTP/TELNET/PADS:
======================
[AB.]* pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk (numeric address 000010403000, login pdsoft)
/micros/arch/riscos/a: See under "ftp servers".
/micros/arch/riscos/tools: See under "ftp servers".
/micros/bbc: See under "ftp servers".
/kermit: See under "ftp servers".
HOW TO REACH CERTAIN SERVICES
=============================
If you can't use Internet ftp, there are servers which can do it for you.
To find out how they work, send them a message containing just the word help.
- ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
- bitftp@pucc.bitnet, or bitftp at pucc (only from within Bitnet)
If you can't reach Janet telnet or pads from the Internet, try to use one of
these access points by using telnet:
- ruts2.runit.sintef.no (129.241.1.8) (press return to see the prompt)
- sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (128.86.8.7) (login janet)
Note that there is now a Janet IP service, through which Internet users can use
some Janet ftp servers, at least the Lancaster one. There is another way to
reach Janet ftp from the Internet; it's also the only way i'm aware of to use
Internet ftp from Janet, if you don't have Janet TCP/IP. To use it, connect to:
- sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (128.86.8.7) (login guestftp, password guestftp)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G e r b e n V o s <><
Aconet: 8500/104!Gerben Vos Internet: gpvos@cs.vu.nl
Contrary to popular belief, the programmers at Acorn do know what they are
doing. -- Nicko van Someren
_______________________________________________________________________________
aglover@acorn.co.uk, moderator of comp.sys.acorn.announce. Submissions to
announce-request@acorn.co.uk, other related mail to announcer@acorn.co.uk.
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