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Project Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2
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Thu Aug 6 09:49:54 1992
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 08:44:37 CDT
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From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2
!The newest Project Gutenberg FTP site is at the Cleveland Freenet!!
We need some Freenet users log in and test the system, hopefully the
sessions can be saved as a file and forwarded to us so they can be a
great assistance in the creation of help and readme files.
You can ftp and get at least some files at ftp.cwru.edu (anonymous).
You can also call via modem at 1-216-368-3888 (I have not tried it).
Also a new Gutenberg ftp site located at: nptn.org (192.55.234.52).
Do an anonymous ftp into nptn.org. cd /pub/e.texts/gutenberg
Then cd etext91 or etext92 to get to the books listed above.
Freenet and NPTN (National Public Telecomputing Network) are not the
same organization, though Tom Grundner is involved with both.
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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 now listed in each newsletter.
Others texts are also available at the various sites.
[if you are not an internet site, you will either have to find one to use
or find an FTP emulator program to use at your sites and/or I will have a
packet of information sent to you directly as email. (I leave this choice
for last because all email is backed up to my disk, so sending out copies
to many people creates many backups, but don't hesitate to ask and remind
us that you need email sent rather than instructions for FTP)]
For further information or to retrieve electronic books:
FTP directly to the Project Gutenberg archives:
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
or
ftp 128.174.201.12
login: anonymous
password: name@login [your email address]
cd etext/etext91 [for 1991 releases]
cd etext/articles [for Project Gutenberg articles and newsletters]
cd etext92 [for 1992 releases] if /etext/etext92 is down
dir [to see files]
get or mget [to get files. . .set bin for zip files]
GET INDEX
for a list of books
and
GET NEW GUT
for general information
and
MGET GUT*
for newsletters.
MORE DETAILS
ls -a or dir (This will give you a directory listing, case sensitive)
get filename.filetype
(examples . . . )
dir (to see current editions available) (RETURN to see next page)
get alice29.txt
get lglass16.txt
get snark12.txt
quit
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You may have to get local instructions for linking to FTP,
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via disk on request in several formats. Some Bitnet sites
have FTP emulators, check with your local guru.
The current FTP sites are:
mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or (128.174.201.12) cd /etext (details above)
(Please do NOT use the mrcnext between 10AM and 6PM weekdays)
Our newest FTP sites are: (and therefore we are in need of testing
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The Oregon State server. Please send us records of your sessions with
them, along with questions you need answered. We will compile sets of
instructions similar to those you see below for the other sites.
Named the Almanac information server, located at the Extension Service
at Oregon State University, allows text retrieval both through ftp and
email (for Bitnet users). Works from To retrieve a file via ftp:
ftp oes.orst.edu (128.193.124.2)
Log in as `anonymous' and your login name as a password.
cd /pub/almanac/guten
ls (to get a list of files)
bin (to switch to binary mode)
get filename (where `filename' was one of the files listed)
bye (when done)
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send gutenberg catalog
This will instruct you how to send further requests, and will list
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in Wonderland_, send to almanac@oes.orst.edu
send gutenberg alice
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Internet: hansenc@OES.ORST.EDU UUCP:
uunet!orstext!gouda!hansenc
******Thanks Chris. . .your server has already been reported as extremely!
******useful by those with bitnet only access, including proofreaders. mh
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quake.think.com (192.31.181.1)
cd pub
cd etext91 or cd etext92
Our thanks to Brewster Kahle!
(Our thanks to Thinking Machines Corporation)
(Located in Cambridge, MA near Boston)
*********
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)
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.
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
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.
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