Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk From: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu (Whitewater Wombat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Files on purdue- are they ok? Message-ID: <4789@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 10:43:45 EDT Article-I.D.: j.4789 Posted: Sat Jul 18 10:43:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 01:20:36 EDT References: <359@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Whitewater Wombat) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 36 In article <359@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes: >Then i got a letter from a helpful person at MIT telling me >that i am not alone and that apparently amiga object files at >Purdue have problems. > This is not the first problem i have had with files from Purdue; >in fact i never did get ELM source to decompress correctly. > I really hate to sound like i am slandering purdue; they are >performing a wonderful service and i am grateful. But if there >is a problem we all ought to know about it. Actually, the person who should know about it is *ME*. Any and all problems involving the archives on j.cc.purdue.edu (aka asc.purdue.edu) should be mailed to "usenet" (note: NOT to "rsk") and such problems will either be dealt with or forwarded to the appropriate person for resolution. Complaining in a newsgroup I don't normally read (this one) isn't likely to help anything. Most of the time, problems that I deal with concerning the archives are resolved by noting one of the following: 1. Compressed files should be transferred using the "binary" mode of ftp. 2. We're running the compress from 4.3BSD. The statistics that I occasionally run on the archives indicate that about half of the several hunrdred files in them are accessed in any given 30-day period; I receive roughly one problem report a month. Incidentally, note that Purdue is NOT a homogenous computing community; the computing center, where I work, is completely independent of the engineering computer network, the computer sciences network, and a number of other smaller networks on campus. The Usenet archives are maintained at the computing center (PUCC), by myself and Craig Norborg, so if there's credit or blame it rests mostly on us. -- Rich Kulawiec, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk PUCC News Administrator