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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
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 10:37:50 1987
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Organization: Ohio State Univ, Computer Science Department
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From: Bob Sutterfield 

The 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