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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
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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