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- SCHOONSCHIP DISTRIBUTION
- Anonymous FTP Guide 10-October-1991
-
- The Schoonschip free distribution is currently available via anonymous ftp
- from the internet site:
-
- archive.umich.edu
-
- The numerical address is 141.211.164.153, but note that it is better to use
- symbolic rather than numeric internet addresses where possible, because the
- numeric addresses change more often. The one above has already changed at
- least once!
-
- Here is a quick review of how to use anonymous ftp. First, you have to be
- logged on to an account with access to the internet. This is true of many
- UNIX and VAX systems. On VAX's under VMS, the ftp program has a UNIX
- personality mode, which we advise using (see your system administrator).
- Otherwise the commands below may not work. Even then, we're not sure how
- binary file transmission will work with a VAX as an intermediate step.
-
- Here is a sample session to get the Schoonschip executable file for the
- NeXT. Mostly commands entered at the local host are shown, without the
- local prompts.
-
- ----------
-
- ftp archive.umich.edu
-
- (remote system asks for id): anonymous (OR ftp)
-
- (remote system asks for password): guest (OR ftp OR just_about_anything)
-
- dir (just to see what archives are there)
-
- cd physics/schip
-
- dir (to see what's there)
-
- binary
-
- recv SchipNXT.tar.Z
-
- quit
-
- ----------
-
- The Schoonschip executable binary and documentation text files are all
- compressed, and must be transmitted in binary mode. There are some
- uncompressed text files as well, which you can "recv" (and should, because
- they provide helpful information) without setting "binary". In particular,
- they briefly describe how to uncompress the files.
-
- Once the compressed files are recv'd via ftp, you still have the problem
- of getting them to your home computer. If that's a Sun or a NeXT, you
- may be already there, or maybe can get there via (un-anonymous) ftp. You
- will use UNIX utilities to uncompress the files.
-
- If it's an Amiga or Atari, maybe you'll use Kermit to download in binary
- mode over the telephone with a modem (a whole other story). Once there,
- you'll need the public domain lharc program to uncompress the files.
-
- David N. Williams
- Physics Department
- University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120
- USA
-
- DWILLIAMS@umiphys.bitnet
-
- David.N.Williams@um.cc.umich.edu
-