| Re .0:
First, you need to know the location of the SFL archives. This will be
something like "pdq.xyz.abc".
If you are a VMS system, send mail to DECWRL::FTPMAIL. Your mail
should contain the single line "HELP" in the text. DECWRL::FTPMAIL is
connected to an automated server that will mail you back instructions.
You will have to read the instructions and then send another mail
message that contains a list of commands. The commands will be
something like "CONNECT pdq.xyz.abc anonymous" to connect to the
server, and "CD directory" to change directories, "DIR" or "LS" to list
the contents of a directory, and "GET file" to get files. If you are
getting binary files, you may need to select an encoding method and
locate the appropriate decoding tools. You will probably find such
tools listed in the Toolshed conference; let me know if you need its
address. If you are getting large files, they will be mailed to you in
parts, and you will need to edit them and put them together.
If you have an Ultrix system, type:
ftp ftp-gw.pa.dec.com 1555
This will connect you to a relay service that provides FTP access to
sites outside digital. Type "[email protected]" to log in. You
will probably then be asked to enter your address as the password;
enter "[email protected]". Then you use commands "ls" to
list, "cd" to change directories (including "cd .." to go up a level),
and "get file" to get a file. There is probably a "help" command
available too.
-- edp
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| SF-LOVERS Digest Thursday, 1 Oct 1992 Volume 17 : Issue 498
A B S T R A C T
Today's Topics:
Administrivia - Archives,
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 10:17:18 EDT
From: [email protected] (SF-LOVERS)
Reply-to: [email protected]
Subject: Archives
One of the long standing traditions of SF-LOVERS is keeping back issues and
related files in a publicly accessible area. The SF-LOVERS archives are
currently stored on GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU (128.6.7.26) which is a unix
machine. The archives are currently available to anyone with FTP access to
this machine.
Please do not send mail asking me to mail you files from the archives.
Most of the files are too big to be transmitted via mail without getting
various system administrators on the network extremely upset. I'm sorry,
but that's just the way things are at the moment. If you cannot access the
archives through one of the methods given then, for the present, you will
not be able to gain access to these files.
The machine you are connecting to, GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU is a unix machine.
As with all unix machines, filenames are case sensitive. This means that
filenames and directory names *must* be entered as given.
Instructions for INTERNET users:
To access the archives, you need to login with ftp using the anonymous
login function. Below is a sample session (The "%" and "ftp>" are prompts,
yours may vary):
% ftp gandalf.rutgers.edu
Connected to gandalf.rutgers.edu.
220 gandalf.rutgers.edu FTP server
Name (gandalf.rutgers.edu:<userid>): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub/sfl
ftp> get <filename>
ftp> quit
Instructions for BITNET users:
To access the archives, the principle is the same however it must be
handled via a special email server since there is no way to run ftp
interactively from many BITNET sites. You can send mail to
[email protected] with the following as the text of the message:
FTP gandalf.rutgers.edu
USER anonymous
CD pub/sfl
GET <filename>
You will probably get two mail messages back. One from the server itself
informing you that the request went through and the other will be the
actual file retrieved. I haven't tried this for multiple files so I don't
know if each file retrieved comes back as a separate message or not.
Below is a partial list of the files that are currently available in the
archives:
Episode Guides:
23 blakes7.guide
17 doctor-who.guide
17 forever-knight.guide
17 galactica.guide
9 galactica80.guide
36 lost-in-space.guide
5 max-headroom.guide [Incomplete]
28 new-twilight-zone.guide [Possibly incomplete]
22 outerlimits.guide
9 prisoner.guide
33 quantum-leap.guide [Soon to be updated]
7 red-dwarf.guide
14 space:1999.guide
16 star-blazers.guide
10 star-cops.guide
13 star-trek-animated.guide
120 star-trek-tng.guide [Soon to be updated]
26 star-trek.guide
6 tomorrow-people.guide
70 twilight-zone.guide
Text Files:
168 alternate-histories.txt
20 amber-timeline.txt
63 amber.parody [parody of Zelazny's Amber series]
68 argon.txt
43 babylon5.faq
* 51 cons.txt [updated as of September 17]
31 decwars.txt
23 down-in-flames.txt
232 gender-swapping.list
85 hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-net.txt
21 hugos.txt
7 klingonaase.txt
8 nebulas.txt
2 prometheus.txt
26 quantum-leap.faq
9 quantum-leap.primer
3 saturn.txt
75 sf-music.txt
91 the-enchanted-duplicator.txt
160 transformation-stories.txt
25 WSFS.Constitution.txt
10 WSFS.StandingRules.txt
5 world-fantasy-awards.txt
Back Issues of SF-LOVERS:
1872 sf-lovers.v1
1904 sf-lovers.v2
1856 sf-lovers.v3
1760 sf-lovers.v4
816 sf-lovers.v5
1744 sf-lovers.v6
592 sf-lovers.v7
1648 sf-lovers.v8
3600 sf-lovers.v9
7472 sf-lovers.v10
6752 sf-lovers.v11
4944 sf-lovers.v12a
4000 sf-lovers.v12b
6000 sf-lovers.v13
7568 sf-lovers.v14
4352 sf-lovers.v15a [Jan 1990 - June 1990]
3456 sf-lovers.v15b [July 1990 - December 1990]
4704 sf-lovers.v16a [Jan 1991 - June 1991]
3808 sf-lovers.v16b [July 1991 - December 1991]
Also in the archives: the author lists provided and maintained by John Wenn
are available in the directory pub/sfl/authorlists. The list for each
author is contained in its own file with the filenames being in the form:
Lastname.Firstname, e.g. Niven.Larry (Please remember, unix filenames are
case sensitive). Many of the authorlists have recently been updated.
A few notes about the files. The number that appears to the left of the
file, is the approximate size of the file in kilobytes. All of the back
issues except for volume 1 are in BABYL mail format. The first volume,
sf-lovers.v1, includes a number of messages from the early days before
digests and there is much of "historical" interest.
The current volume is Volume 17. Old issues of this volume may be found in
the same directory as the archives. They are in the files sf-lovers.xxxyy
where "xxx" is the month of publication and "yy" is the current year. For
more recent back issues, send your request to
[email protected].
Files in the archives that have been modified within the last month or are
new entries are denoted with a "*" in the lists above. If anyone notes any
errors or would like to supply missing information, please write to
[email protected].
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