Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bob From: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: GNU software available from osu-eddie via uucp Message-ID: <3696@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 10:37:50 EDT Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.3696 Posted: Thu Jun 18 10:37:50 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 16:00:58 EDT Sender: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP Organization: Ohio State Univ, Computer Science Department Lines: 193 From: Bob SutterfieldThe Computer and Information Science Department of the Ohio State University provides Free Software Foundation GNU products via UUCP only as a redistribution service. Anything found here is only and exactly as it would be found on the indicated Internet hosts, were one to acquire it via anonymous FTP (like we did). OSU CIS takes no responsibility for the contents of any of the distributions described in this message. See the Distribution document (emacs/etc/DISTRIB) and the GNU Emacs General Public License (emacs/etc/COPYING). How to reach osu-eddie via uucp =============================== Here is a set of L.sys or Systems file lines suitable for osu-eddie: # # direct 2400 bps - three lines on rotary, they answer @1200 too (Jun 4) # osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-5111 "" \r\c in:--in: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # # Micom switch 2400 bps - working (Feb 9) # osu-eddie Any ACU 2400 1-614-292-3124 "" \d\r\c Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # # Micom switch 1200 bps # osu-eddie Any ACU 1200 1-614-292-3070 Name \dcisvax\r RETURN \c GO \d\r\d\r login: LOGIN word: PASSWORD # Modify as appropriate for your site, of course. The various things to substitute for LOGIN and PASSWORD will be discussed below. This is a time-restricted login; that is, osu-eddie will not allow logging in via this name outside the time period 10pm-7am, in order to keep our few dialins and ports available for primarily local access, and our CPU free for primarily local, departmental system users. This restriction will likely be lifted when osu-eddie (a seriously overloaded VAX-11/780) is replaced as the primary UUCP and news feed for Ohio State, and most of Columbus that isn't Bell/ATT. The replacement (a 3b2/400) is waiting for time to install it. Where the files are =================== GNU Emacs --------- To get GNU Emacs, substitute `GNUemacs' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. GNU Emacs exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form, exactly what you find on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file /u2/emacs/edist.tar-18.47.Z. For the sake of uucp sanity, it is cut into 36 parts, as the set of files ~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.47.Z-part-[aa-bj]. The first 35 parts are each exactly 100,000 bytes long, followed by the trailing 36th which is 71,777 bytes long. The separation helps to keep long distance uucp sane, so that if it fails midway through a conversation, you need restart only with the part that failed, rather than the whole beast. There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond the current osu-eddie `base' emacs distribution (18.47 now). Diffs available are: diff-18.38-18.39.Z 176,494 bytes diff-18.39-18.40.Z 51,517 diff-18.40-18.41.Z 79,535 diff-18.41-18.44.Z 118,183 diff-18.44-18.45.Z 225,323 diff-18.45-18.46.Z 35,702 diff-18.46-18.47.Z 19,382 Note that diff files frequently have new files or instructions at their top, and that it may be necessary to cut a diff file into as many pieces as there are directories in which patches were made; this depends largely on the recency of your patch program. Sorry, there do not exist diff files to go from 17.xx to v18. We have also removed all the v17 and the particularly old v18 diffs in the interest of saving disc space. If you're that far back in the versions, you're better off to get a fresh distribution. GNU Bison --------- To get GNU Bison, substitute `GNUbison' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. GNU Bison exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /u2/emacs/bison as of April 28, 1987. It is in ~/gnubison.dist/gnubison.tar.Z, which is 76,045 bytes long. MIT C Scheme ------------ To get MIT C Scheme, substitute `GNUschem' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. Please notice the lack of a trailing `e' in those, due to login name length restrictions! MIT C Scheme is distributed by the GNU Project, as another free software system. It exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes in compressed tar form just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file /u2/scheme/dist.tar.Z (that file created April 25, 1987). It is in ~/mitscheme.dist/mitscheme.tar.Z-part-[aa-ao] where all but the last are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-ao is 37,708 bytes long. GNU Chess --------- To get GNU Chess, substitue `GNUchess' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. GNU Chess exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes just as on venera.isi.edu in the file pub/gnuchess.tar.Z, version 6.09.87, only split for UUCP consumption. The distribution is in ~/gnuchess.dist/gnuchess.tar.Z-part-[aa-ad], where all but the last are each 100,000 bytes long, and part-ad is 53,347 bytes long. GNU C Compiler -------------- To get the GNU C Compiler (gcc), substitute `GNUgcc' for both `LOGIN' and `PASSWORD' in the lines above. The GNU C Compiler (gcc) exists on osu-eddie for distribution purposes just as on prep.ai.mit.edu in the file /u2/emacs/gcc.tar-1.4.Z, only split for UUCP consumption. The distribution is in ~/gcc.dist/gcc.tar-1.4.Z-part-[aa-al], where all but the last are each 100,000 bytes long and part-al is 34,261 bytes long. There are some diff files available, previous to and sometimes beyond the current osu-eddie `base' gcc distribution (1.4 now). Diffs available are: gcc.diffs-1.1-1.2.Z 65,485 bytes gcc.diffs-1.2-1.3.Z 74,465 gcc.diffs-1.3-1.4.Z 33,797 GCC requires Bison, since it uses a feature (@n) of Bison that's not in Yacc. Remember to pick that up too - see the instructions above. What to do with it all - building Emacs as an example ====================== Pick a night when you can afford to be at the office late. {:-)} Arrange to have the files uucp'd to your site. Copying the complete set of Emacs' part-?s will take on the order of 7 hours at 1200 bps, correspondingly less at 2400. Your mileage will definitely vary, by as much as 25% on either side of those estimates. If you successfully UUCP anything from osu-eddie, please send us mail describing any problems you had, and (if possible) an estimate of how long it took you and at what baud rate, so that we can keep these figures up to date. Note: Do not request the files to be transferred using a command like % uucp osu-eddie!~/gnumacs.dist/edist.tar-18.47.Z-part-\* /some/local/directory because that won't work. That will queue up a short request via *uux* to run a uucp command on osu-eddie; it will fail for security reasons. You must issue many uucp commands, one for each file in each distribution you want, plus one for each diff- file you want. They will all get queued and executed in as few UUCP connections as possible. After the files have all showed up, you should extract the full distribution of GNU Emacs thusly: cat edist.tar-18.47.Z-part-?? | zcat | tar xvf - Voila`, you have GNU Emacs, ready to build and cause you both joy and pain for the rest of your life. The other GNU software available here is unpacked similarly. (The `zcat' mentioned above is part of the `compress' distribution, from Volume 2 of your friendly nearby mod.sources archive.) Miscellany ========== This file of instructions exists as the file ~/GNU.instructions (accessible from any of the logins described above), and is occasionally updated as new distributions and diffs come out and are made available. This happens much more frequently than the full set of instructions are posted to comp.sources.d, so get it first to be sure what you are getting later in each night's UUCP transfer. Unfortunately, the worst case might be that (e.g.) if you only get part of a full distribution one night and a new version arrives during the day, you might get some of the part-*s for the old version and not know that the rest of your part-*s are from the new one. Get this file to be sure. Someone invariably has problems with uucp. Feel free to write us some mail; we'll be happy to help as much as we can, though that is usually limited by distance and mail turnaround time. Cheers, Bob Sutterfield: Karl Kleinpaste: osu-eddie!bob osu-eddie!karl bob@ohio-state.arpa karl@ohio-state.arpa