[12] in Information Retrieval
["Michael S. Hart" : Gutenberg Newsletter: August 31, 1991, Part II]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Thu Sep 5 09:43:37 1991
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 91 09:42:01
From: tjm@eagle.mit.edu (Tim McGovern)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
------- Forwarded Message
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1991 17:35:33 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum
<PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum
<PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART%vmd.cso.uiuc.edu@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Subject: Gutenberg Newsletter: August 31, 1991, Part II
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 02 Sep 91 10:50:35 CDT
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
The Project Gutenberg Newsletter__August 31, 1991__Our 21st Year
Part Two
Here are the latest updates for FTP downloading of Project Gutenberg
etexts and others. These updates will be posted on several listserv
locations once a month. We hope we have answered most questions, as
new files, new locations, and new users arrive each month. We can't
answer queries about nameservers or how your local system runs FTP.
These files are also available in most disk formats.
Please do not access the mrcnext machine from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Central Standard Time (Daylight in summer) as this is peak usage,
& mrcnext is always the first machine to get the newest editions.
Current releases are Alice26a.txt, Lglass15.txt and Snark11.txt.
Others texts are also available at the various sites.
If you are interested in getting the electronic books,
it's easy if you have access to FTP. Just type
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (or any of the other systems listed below)
(Your system may require this in lower case or quotes around the name.)
or
ftp 128.174.201.12
login
anonymous (This is the login username caps not necessary)
(Any password works fine )
cd etext
ls -a or dir (This will give you a directory listing, case sensitive)
get filename.filetype
(examples . . . )
get alice26a.txt
get lglass16.txt
get snark10.txt
quit
*****
You may have to get local instructions for linking to FTP,
and/or setting memory for FTP. These files also available
via disk on request in several formats.
****
The current FTP sites are:
mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or (128.174.201.12) cd /etext
(Please do NOT use the mrcnext between 10AM and 6PM weekdays)
Our newest FTP site is: (and therefore we are in need of testing and
of advice for our instruction set)
think.com (131.239.2.1)
cd /public
also try
quake.think.com (192.31.181.1)
cd pub
cd etext
(Our thanks to Thinking Machines Corporation)
(Located in Cambridge, MA near Boston)
cd /pub
simtel20.army.mil or (192.88.110.20) pd:<books>
Note new numeric name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Also known as WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
(This computer has great archives and is used a lot, takes time) (Detailed
instructions below, but doesn't have the newest editions).
The MSDOS portions of simtel are echoed on:
wuarchive.wustl.edu
Name: wuarchive.wustl.edu
Address: 128.252.135.4
(Please report your efforts on wuarchive, we need a guru for it) (wuarchive
also echoed on mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in the mirrors dir.
deneva.sdd.trw.com or (129.193.73.1) cd pub/etext and cd
pub/etext/compressed for compresses versions.
(Our thanks to TRW)
We also have a new site in New Zealand, for local acces only. Just ask me.
We appreciate your suggestions for corrections and emendations.
******
WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.2.0.74]
NOTE; Type B is Binary: Type A is ASCII
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.BOOKS>
Filename Type Length Date Description
==============================================
ALICE11.ZIP B 61702 901218 Lewis Carroll-ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
LGLASS10.ZIP B 70039 901217 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll
SIMTEL20 allows standard ANONYMOUS ftp with password GUEST.
cd pd1:<msdos.books>
type tenex
get alice11.zip
get lglass11.zip
bye
If your FTP does not have TENEX mode, use BINARY mode. If the files
are not readable after transferring in BINARY mode, try again with
these two commands to set the mode:
type binary
quote "TYPE L 8"
The double quotes are required.
*******************************
Again our thanks to all who have supported Project Gutenberg, including
those who just say "Thanks, keep up the good work, to those who send us
errors (we love improving our texts). We would particularly send thank
yous to Apple (who granted us a MacIIci/5M, a 4M video card, a scanner,
a portrait monitor, and a few CD's; and to Quantum Leap for their GIGA-
ROM CD, MacAdemic CD, and CD7; Caere for giving us help with a software
situation beyond our control, to InfoBases (801)375-7371 for the Mormon
literature we will be posting (call them for Folio editions of all text
files of Mormon interest at very reasonable prices). Information about
any of these products available on request. If you know an institution
(public, private, academic or commercial) who might like to support any
of our work, please let us know, as we now have more demands on all our
time and energies than we can keep up with.
=====================================================
| The trend of library policy is clearly toward
| the ideal of making all information available
| without delay to all people.
|
|The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM)
|(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.
Thank you for your interest,
Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg
Please excuse typos, most writing done at a terminal,
written fast w/o spellchecker (margins are for fun!).
Emphases are *bolded*, ~italicized~ and _underlined_.
INTERNET: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
BITNET: hart@uiucvmd.bitnet
The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect
the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof
Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts
with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW.
"NOTICE: Due to the shortage of ROBOTS and COMPUTERS
some of our workers are HUMAN and therefore will act
unpredictably when abused."
------- End of Forwarded Message
