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- From: stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf)
- Subject: Re: IAFAfying existing archives
- References: <1992Nov18.162748.27033@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Originator: stumpf@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:03:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170315.22328@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Nov18.162748.27033@samba.oit.unc.edu>, ses@sunSITE.unc.edu (Simon Spero) writes:
- |> At the IAFA (Internet Anonymous FTP Archives) working group yesterday,
- |> a group of archive administrators agreed to work together to help prepare
- |> IAFA descriptions for existing packages in the archives. We'll be setting up
- |> a mailing list and wais archive, so that we only have to write a description
- |> of gnuplot once. We'll be setting up the list and starting cranking out the
- |> templates some time next week- all we need now are a few dedicated and rutheless
- |> accomplices...
- |>
- |> If you're interested in helping, please send mail to Peter Deutch
- |> (peterd@bunyip.com) or myself (ses@sunsite.unc.edu).
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- We already have done some work, mostly in the X11 area!
- It is still the old format!
- We have a WAIS and gopher server to access the files! And you may even
- look in the index of our ftp-server for files ending in .idx!
- The addresses are:
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- GOPHER:
- -------
- Name=IAFA Descriptions - FTP.Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
- Type=7
- Port=70
- Path=7/.wais-db/ftp-index
- Host=gopher.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- WAIS:
- -----
- (:source
- :version 3
- :ip-address "131.159.0.110"
- :ip-name "wais.informatik.tu-muenchen.de"
- :tcp-port 210
- :database-name "ftp-index"
- :cost 0.00
- :cost-unit :free
- :maintainer "stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de"
- :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on Aug 19 16:53:13 1992 b
- y root@dsrbg2"
- )
-
- anonymous ftp:
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- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- Please put me on the mailing-list!
- Ciao
-
- \Maex
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