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- ACCESSING THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY VIA UUCP (USENET) AND BITNET
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- "How can a user of a USENET host access the public domain
- microcomputer software collection on the DDN/MILNET host SIMTEL20?"
- is being asked with increasing frequency as that software collection
- continues to grow. Unfortunately, direct access is not possible as
- there is no UUCP gateway for file transfer between SIMTEL20 (running
- TOPS-20) and a USENET host (as there is for electronic mail).
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- DDN, formerly known as ARPANET, is the Defense Data Network.
- DDN, along with Arpanet, SATNET, SRINET, etc. are all members of a
- TCP/IP protocol-based, multiple gateway network called InterNet.)
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- USENET has been built on adjacent hosts voluntarily agreeing
- to store- and-forward relatively short messages across the USENET over
- dialup lines at 300 or 1200 bps. In the past, helpful InterNet users
- would fetch the file(s) requested and then e-mail them to the
- requestor. However, it has been pointed out that large file transfers
- disrupt the service, delay the shorter messages, and generate
- unacceptably large phone bills, all of which add up to threaten the
- tenuous connections that some USENET hosts can barely afford to have.
- Therefore, we have been asked to encourage InterNet users not to pass
- archive programs this way.
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- Those USENET and BITNET users who wish to access the files
- in the Ada Software Repository may acquire them via magtape or
- IBM PC diskette. See the files PD2:<ADA.GENERAL>TAPEDIST.DOC and
- PD2:<ADA.GENERAL>FLOPDIST.DOC for details on how to do this.
- Additionally, the ASR Newsletter documents other methods for
- accessing the ASR from these communities as they become available;
- see the file PD2:<ADA.GENERAL>NEWSLTR.DOC for details on acquiring
- the ASR Newsletters.
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- The problem of giving USENET and BITNET users a more timely
- method of accessing the ASR is being addressed, and details will be
- released in future issues of the ASR Newsletter.
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- For BITNET Users Only
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- Michael Feldman of The George Washington University EE&CS
- Department maintains a mailing list of people at BITNET sites
- interested in receiving the list of validated Ada compilers and Ada
- Software Repository Newsletters on a regular basis. Michael can be
- contacted via electronic mail:
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- MFELDMAN at GWUVM - BITNET
- MFELDMAN%GWUVM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU - DDN
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