--- big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: SERVERS,v 2.0 1994/01/29 17:41:22 joke Rel $ -=- * -=- "A map of the world without Utopia is not worth glancing at." -- Oscar Wilde -=- * -=- This file lists the currently (January 1994) available electronic archive sites/services, that either distribute the "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet", or let you browse through it using the latest of infosystems technologies... Please note that the Texinfo based version (below addressed as "DUMMY's") is different from the original HyperCard and ASCII files, (cf the README for more info on this issue). -=- * -=- * THE WHOLE STORY COMPRESSED DUMMY's comes in a variety of formats: PostScript (.ps), TeX DVI (.dvi), GNU Info (.info), plain text (.txt), HyperText Markup Language (.html), AmigaGuide (.amiga) and the complete source distribution (including some patch files, you'll need to use Makeinfo-1.55, and texi2html-1.21) bundled in a Tarfile (.tar). Depending on the system adminstrator, ie. the disk space he's willing to give away for DUMMY's, these files will be stored in one of some dozen of compression "flavors". Thus, here's an excerpt from the FTP chapter of DUMMY's, that explains the whole story: FTP (Mining the Net, part II) ***************************** [..] There are a wide variety of compression methods in use. You can tell which method was used by the last one to three letters at the end of a file. Here are some of the more common ones and what you'll need to un-compress the files they create (and these decompression programs can all be located through archie). `.txt' `.TXT' By itself, this means the file is a document, rather than a program. `.ps' `.PS' A PostScript document (in Adobe's page description language). You can print this file on any PostScript capable printer, or use a previewer, like GNU project's GhostScript. `.doc' `.DOC' Is another common suffix for documents. No de-compression is needed, unless it is followed by `.z' A file compressed by the Unix `pack' utility. It uses Huffman coding (which minimizes redundancy) on each byte. Type `unpack filename.z' or `gunzip filename.z' to decompress it. This suffix was also briefly used to indicate gzip'ed files before `.gz' was adopted. However, some sites *still* use this suffix for gzip'ed files, e.g. the EFF's FTP-server, due to local set-ups. `.Z' This is a Unix compression method. To uncompress the file, type `uncompress filename.Z' or `gunzip filename.z' and hit enter at your host system's command prompt. If it's a text file, you can read it online by typing `zcat file.txt.Z |more' at your host system's command line. There is a Macintosh program called "MacCompress" that you can use on your machine if you want to download the file (use archie to find where you can get it!). There's an MS-DOS equivalent, often found as `u16.ZIP', which means it is itself compressed in the ZIP format. `.zip' `.ZIP' An MS-DOS format. Use the PKZIP package (usually found as `PKZ201.exe' or something similar). `.gz' The GNU project's compression format. A variant of the PKZIP format. Use `gunzip filename.gz' to uncompress. `.zoo' `.ZOO' A Unix and MS-DOS format. Requires the use of a program called zoo. `.Hqx' `.hqx' A Macintosh format that needs BinHex for de-coding. `.shar' `.Shar' A Unix format. Use unshar. `.tar' Another Unix format, often used to glue several related files and/or completet directory trees into one big file. Use the `tar' command. Often, a "tarred" file will also be compressed with the `.Z' method, so you first have to use uncompress and then tar. `.TAZ' Sometimes used for compressed tar archives `.tar.Z', that are stored on "3 letter suffix only systems" (aka MS-DOS). `.sit' `.Sit' A Macintosh format, requires StuffIt. `.ARC' A DOS format that requires the use of ARC or ARCE. `.LZH' Another DOS compression format; requires the use of LHARC. `.lz' `.lha' The Amiga variant of LHARC. It's the most common Amiga archiving method, and made with the program `lha' or `lz'. [..] -=- * -=- * THE WHOLE LIST OF FILES Check the version number! Get 2.0, it's the latest! Some servers may run "out of pace" with updates; so check out more than one of the SERVERS listed below. The default distribution (all papers sizes) is placed on "ftp.Germany.EU.net", in "pub/books/big-dummys-guide/": |-README // FAQ file |-README.VMS // help for VMS folks |-big-dummys-guide-texi-|-bdgtti-2.0.ps.gz // PostScript |-bdgtti-2.0.dvi.gz // TeX DVI file |-bdgtti-2.0-US.dvi.gz // TeX DVI US paper |-bdgtti-2.0-US.ps.gz // TeX PS US paper |-bdgtti-2.0.info.gz // GNU Info file |-bdgtti-2.0.txt.gz // TEXT file |-bdgtti-2.0.html.tar.gz // HTML (WWW) files |-bdgtti-2.0.amiga.lha // AmigaGuide files |-bdgtti-2.0.tar.gz // all Texinfo sources The US dist is avail. on "ftp.EFF.org", in "pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/ Big_Dummy_other_versions". -=- * -=- * ANONYMOUS FTP AFRICA * South Africa ftp.sun.ac.za:/pub/misc/papers/big-dummys-guide * ASIA * South Korea cair.kaist.ac.kr:/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** AUSTRALIA ftp.vifp.monash.edu.au:/pub/userdocs/bdgtti/ BETELGEUSE hftp.sirius.cybernetics.com:/pub/slurb-this!/big-dummys-guide/ EUROPE * GERMANY ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/books/big-dummys-guide/ bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/... NORTH AMERICA * USA ftp.eff.org:/pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/ ftp.wustl.edu:/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** uceng.uc.edu:/pub/wuarchive/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** ftp.hep.net:/networks/bigdummyguide/ * CANADA ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/mirror3/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** * mirror of ftp.germany.eu.net version 2.0 ** mirror of ftp.eff.org version 2.0 -=- * -=- * E-MAIL SERVERS EUROPE Address: Message layout: BEGIN REPLY SEND SEND ... END Sample: To: archive-server@germany.eu.net Subject: BEGIN REPLY dummy@neverland.com SEND books/big-dummys-guide/README SEND books/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-2.0.ps END NORTH AMERICA Address: Message layout: reply connect get get ... quit Sample: To: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Subject: reply joke@foo.bar connect ftp.eff.org get pub/Net_Info/Big_Dummy/Big_Dummy_other_versions/bdgtti-2.0.ps quit And then? You'll receive a mail from with a contents similar to the following: We processed the following input from your mail message: reply joke@foo.bar connect ftp.eff.org get pub/Net_Info/Big_Dummy/Big_Dummy_other_versions/bdgtti-2.0.ps quit We have entered the following request into our job queue as job number 749212187.29067: connect ftp.germany.eu.net anonymous -ftpmail/joke@foo.bar reply joke@foo.bar get pub/Net_Info/Big_Dummy/Big_Dummy_other_versions/bdgtti-2.0.ps There are 876 jobs ahead of this one in our queue. You should expect the results to be mailed to you within a day or so. [..] NOTICE * If you don't know how to uncompress gzip'ed files (.gz), or any other howevercompressed files, just don't tell FTPmail the suffix! FTPmail is clever enough to *automatically* uncompress the file(s) split them, and mail them to you. * is the *full* filename, ie. including the PATH! -=- * -=- * FSP SERVERS You need to have the FSP client software installed on your system. If you don't know what FSP, clients, or software is, better choose a different service. EUROPE * GERMANY ftp.germany.eu.net 2001:/pub/books/big-dummys-guide/ -=- * -=- * Gopher ASIA * JAPAN gopher.ntt.jp: See "Other information" EUROPE * GERMANY gopher.germany.eu.net: See "EUnet Bookstore" * NORWAY gopher.oslonett.no: See "Informasjonsarkiv" NORTH AMERICA * USA gopher.eff.org: See "EFF Files & Information/Search the EFF on-line document library" and search for "big-dummys" [warning: due to "site construction" the BDGttI may or may not be available from gopher.eff.org as of this writing. If it isn't, it will be eventually.] -=- * -=- * World-Wide Web (entry points) ASIA * JAPAN http://www.ntt.jp/bdgtti/ AUSTRALIA http://www.vifp.monash.edu.au/bdgtti/ EUROPE * AUSTRIA http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/doc/bdgtti/ http://info.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/doc/ * GERMANY http://www.germany.eu.net:8000/bdgtti/bdgtti.html http://physinfo.uni-augsburg.de:80 * HUNGARY http://bagira.fsz.bme.hu/welcome.html [machine: bagira.fsz.bme.hu (152.66.76.5)] * NORWAY http://www.oslonett.no/html/bdgtti/bdgtti.html * SWITZERLAND http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/Dummy/ * UNITED KINGDOM http://sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk:6680/bdg/bdgtti.html NORTH AMERICA * USA http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/docs/bdgtti.html http://www.hep.net/documents/bigdummy/bdgtti.html [note: an EFF WWW server is in the works. Don't hold your breath. but you might give: http://www.eff.org a try.] * CANADA http://www.cs.dal.ca/dummy.html -=- * -=- * CREDITS Another BIG "thank you" to the following Net.saints, who made DUMMY's publicly accessible (in any form) from their sites. In the order of appearance in my mailbox: * Ingo Dressler EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Germany. * Christopher Davis * Helen T. Rose Davis KEI - Kapor Enterprises Inc., Cambridge MA, USA (formerly with EFF) * Dan Brown * Stanton McCandlish EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington DC, USA. * Bo Frese Rasmussen ESO - European Southern Observatory, Space Telescope, European Coordinating Facility * Rik Harris Victorian Inst. of Forensic Pathology, Monash Uni, Australia (http://www.vifp.monash.edu.au/people/rik.html) * Jeremy Payne UIUC Neuroscience program, College of Medicine, IL, USA. * James Grinter Imperial College, University of London, UK. * Oscar Nierstrasz University of Geneva, Switzerland. * David Trueman Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. * TAKADA Toshihiro Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., NTT Basic Research Labs., Information Science Research Lab., Japan. * Jeff Dingbaum National HEPnet Management at Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA. * Otmar Lendl University of Salzburg, Austria. * Elmar Schmidinger Guenter Technical University of Vienna, Faculty of Architecture and Urban planning, Austria. * Pieter Immelman The University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Africa. * Ralf Utermann University of Augburg, Institute of Theoretical Physics I & Computer Center * Paul F. Mende Dept. of Physics, Brown University * Steinar Kjaernsrod Oslonet, Inc. * Maray Tamas Technical University of Budapest, Hungary -=- * -=-