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June Project Gutenberg Newsletter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael S. Hart)
Thu Jul 2 10:46:38 1992
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 09:41:49 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
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Keep this newsletter, it is your "readme" file for the location
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and also contains information on how to retrieve our books from
East Coast, Central and West Coast locations and email and BBS.
**This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June 30, 1992.**
Our Goal, To Give Away One Trillion Etexts By December 31, 2001
We should be at about 2.4 billion with release of the following
not counting pre-1991 releases: which are still in the process
of being dug out of our archives, new headers attached, and new
placement in new directories on our fileserver.
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The only places we post without intermediary delays are mrcnext
and quake.think.com, the other have to be repositioned locally.
June 29, 1992, we posted "The Scarlet Letter" to commemorate an
event which peaked exactly 300 years prior to that date, if the
word "commemorate" is proper for an event such as the trials of
witches is Salem, Massachuetts.
June 30, 1992, we posted "Zen and the Art of the Internet," for
general reference to users of all "networks."
May 10, 1992 in honor of Mothers' Day, we posted "Herland."
May 6, 1992, in honor of Freud's Birthday, the Oedipus Trilogy.
April 19, 1992 in honor of Easter, biblea10.txt or biblea10.zip
[This is a new etext of the King James Version, much proofread]
April 8, 1992, Far From The Madding Crowd, crowd13.txt or .zip.
Nebraska has been included in the US Census (uscen901.xxx).
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The Bible mentioned above is a different edition
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Apr 1991 1990 CIA World Factbook (world12x.xxx)
May 1991 Moby Dick (From OBI)* (mobyxxxx.xxx)
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Jul 1991 The Book of Mormon (mormon13.xxx)
Aug 1991 The Federalist Papers (feder12x.xxx)
Sep 1991 The Song of Hiawatha (hisong11.xxx)
Oct 1991 Paradise Lost (plboss11.xxx)
Nov 1991 Aesop's Fables (aesop11x.xxx)
Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus (roget11x.xxx)
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*Moby Dick is missing Chapter 72
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Jan 1992 Frederick Douglass (duglas10.xxx)
Jan 1992 O Pioneers! Willa Cather (opion10x.xxx)
Feb 1992 1991 CIA World Factbook (world91a.xxx)
Feb 1992 Paradise Lost (Raben) (plrabn11.xxx)
Mar 1992 Far From the Madding Crowd(crowd13x.xxx)
Mar 1992 Aesop's Fables (Advantage)(aesopa10.xxx)
Apr 1992 Data From the 1990 Census (uscen901.xxx)
Apr 1992 New Etext of Bible (KJV) (bible10x.xxx)
May 1992 Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy(oedip10x.xxx)
May 1992 Herland (for Mother's Day)(hrlnd10x.xxx)
Jun 1992 The Scarlet Letter (scrlt10x.xxx)
Jun 1992 Zen & the Art of Internet)(zen10xxx.xxx)
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cd pub
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simtel20.army.mil or (192.88.110.20)
cd pd1:<msdos.books>
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).
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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.
The real name for simtel20 is:
WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
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
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