Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dell@wiretap.spies.com (Thomas Dell) Subject: [PACS-L] January Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2 Message-ID: Organization: The Internet Wiretap Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 00:06:47 GMT Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Message-ID: Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 10:11:14 CDT Subject: January Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2 Lines: 224 From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: January Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2 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!! Please try to help people get text files as we are not well prepared to deal with sending items through the mail. Brief instructions are followed by more detailed instructions. Here are places you can pick up the Project Gutenberg Etexts East to West (details below) quake.think.com is in Massachusetts Cleveland Freenet and NPTN are in Ohio mrcnext is in Illinois The Almanac server is in Oregon simtel20 is in New Mexico The MSDOS portions of simtel are echoed on: Oakland, Michigan Oakland at oak.oakland.edu (141.210.10.117) St. Louis at Washington University wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) and many other sites. You can ftp and get at least some files at ftp.cwru.edu (anonymous). 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. **** 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. 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 ***** 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. 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) Name, the Almanac Information Server, located at the Extension Service at Oregon State University, allows text retrieval both through ftp and email. 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/etext 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) ** To retrieve a file via e-mail, first send the following line by itself to almanac@oes.orst.edu send gutenberg catalog This will instruct you how to send further requests, and will list the available files. For example, to retrieve _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, send to almanac@oes.orst.edu send gutenberg alice ** quake.think.com (192.31.181.1) cd pub cd etext91 or cd etext92 Our thanks to Brewster Kahle! at Thinking Machines Corporation) (Located in Cambridge, MA near Boston) ********* simtel20.army.mil or (192.88.110.20) cd pd1: 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: 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: 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. *** Special note to NETTRAIN users of Project Gutenberg: moderator started Jan. 1. . .our first January posting announcing Surfing the Internet by Jean Armour Polly was rejected by Jim Milles as irrlelvant to NETTRAIN. . .without even reading the first lines announcing this highly relevant etext. This rejected note also announced the upcoming the removal of an ASCII etext of NUSIRG, the Northwestnet User Services Internet Resources Guide. Those NETTRAINers who have asked permission to repost our newsletters will have to insure the get posted on NETTRAIN. There was no Newsletter or Newsletter2 for the last few months: I had lots of work to do and wanted to test the the response to the Newsletters of October, 1992, also wanted to test NETTRAIN: Project Gutenberg is preparing an entire set of Internet etext: manuals for those learning the networks. If you would like the Project Gutenberg Newletters posted to NETTRAIN, please send an email note to Jim Milles . . . . In deference to Jim's wishes, however, NETTRAIN members will be receiving only the most important two or three notes per month, and therefore will not receive postings announcing etexts on an immediate basis when they are posted, rather at menth's end. ===================================================== | 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, Project Gutenberg Executive Director National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts 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. Mail will be considered for release in our newsletter and notes unless otherwise requested. 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