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- Subject: v09INF3: Change in archive sites, recent errors
- Newsgroups: mod.sources
- Approved: rs@mirror.TMC.COM
-
- Submitted by: Rich $alz <mirror!rs>
- Mod.sources: Volume 9, Info 3
- Archive-name: index9.3
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- UPDATE TO ARCHIVE SITES
- The full list of archive sites, and the services they provide, were
- given in first Volume 9 index article, posted near the beginning of
- the month. The next few paragraphs provide some recent updates.
-
- The "anonymous UUCP" access to mod.sources maintained by the people at
- cuae2 has been abolished. People there no longer feel it is in their
- interest to provide the free UUCP login.
-
- David Barto has an automated mail-based retrieval system. To retrieve
- send a mail message to megatek!sources. The body of the message should
- be the word "BEGIN" on a line by itself, the names of the files to
- retrieve, the word "END", then a short return address to your site.
- The special string "LIST" will send the currently accessable list of
- sources. David is reachable as megatek!barto.
-
- Jim Thompson, otto!jim, can also make quarter-inch tar and cpio tapes
- for people -- contact him for more details.
-
- CSNET sites can retrieve postings from the CSNET Info-Server. To
- receive help and an index, send the following request:
- Request: mod.sources
- Topic: help
- Topic: index
-
- Thanks to Scott Bradner at Harvard, there will soon be a BITNET
- retrieval service available. There will also be tape-based archive
- service for European sites.
-
- NOTE: There is *no* automated retrieval system running at Mirror
- Systems. Please do not send terse, computer-oriented, messages to
- mirror!sources-request -- that alias is read by a human, not a
- machine.
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- RECENT PROBLEMS
- Some strange problems on mirror (a bad disk block?) have lead to
- corruptions in the following postings:
- Ease (early truncation)
- Elm (Configure.sh and one source file)
- Month (one part missing)
- Re-posts for the damaged parts are going out over the next couple of
- days.
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- NO MORE EDITORS
- At times this newsgroup can be accused of having become mod.sources.editors.
- I am calling for a hiatus on full-screen editor postings for the next
- several months or so, maybe even for a full year. Before you submit
- an editor to me for publication, please check with me -- and your code --
- that it does something substantively different from the following editors
- already available in the mod.sources archive;
- Volume 4: uEmacs (6 parts) MicroEmacs, v. 30
- Volume 4: uEmacs3.6 (8 parts) MicroEMACS 3.6
- Volume 4: TVX (10 parts) Portable editor, with "emacs" and "vi" modes
- Volume 4: se (8 parts) Georgia Tech 'se' screen editor
- Volume 6: MicroEmacs, Version 3.7 (uEmacs3.7); 12 parts
- Volume 8: Georgia Tech 'se' Screen Editor; 7 parts
- Volume 8: A Micro-Emacs variant that resembles GNU Emacs; 11 parts
- Volume 8: The JOVE text editor; 13 parts
- Volume 9: A TECO text editor; 4 parts
- Volume 9: MicroEMACS, version 3.8b; 14 parts
- (Thanks to rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu for pointing this out.)
-