From: magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: NEW linux ftp site (banjo ressurected)
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:33:45 GMT
(sorry if you've seen this before. i posted it in non-80 column mode)
howdy all,
I would like to announce a reincarnation of banjo. As a result of some
marathon FTP sessions, all of banjo has been reproduced on reggae.oit.unc.edu
in ftp/pub/pc-stuff/Linux. I will be actively maintaining this so, uploads
are most encouraged.
This ftp site is trying to be compliant with the IAFA guidelines on archives,
which are (imho) Good Things. Part of that is to fill in the form below (copies
of which are available on archives.cc.mcgill.ca in /iafa). If you can take
the time to fill this thing out and upload it as package.iafa (where package
is the tar.Z file you are uploading) into incoming, It will help us make our
archives available through WAIS and the other cool tools we are working on
here.
(All of this is of course optional, I will accept all working Linux uploads!
You are just encouraged to do this and help us make anonymous ftp easier)
If you have any questions, drop me a line at jem@reggae.oit.unc.edu.
=====package.iafa======
Package-Name: Name of the file or directory containing the package
Title: Title of the package
Version: This field can be used if a version number or string is
associated with the package
Description: Description of the function of the programs in the package
Author: Name and Email address of authors if available
Maintained-by: This field should be included when the current maintainer
of the package is known. Contact information should be
included
Maintained-at: Host name of the "home" of the package if known. This is
the site at which the most uptodate version of the package
would be expected to be found
Platforms: Any requirements or restrictions that the package may
have in terms of hardware or software (OS) platforms.
The programming language the package is written in should
be included.
Copying-Policy: The status of the package for copying purposes. (See Note
<1>)
Keywords: Keywords appropriate for users trying to locate the
package
Notes on this file.
<1> The most common entries for this field would be "Public Domain" or
"Freely Redistributable" or "Voluntary Payment" (shareware). However
since a record may exist for software packages not resident on the
AFA, this field may be entered as "Proprietary" or some other form of
restricted access
Example record for the IAFA-PACKAGES file.
Package-Name: xarchie.tar.Z
Title: xarchie
Version: 1.3
Description: This program provides and X11 interface to the archie
database. It allows the user to locate and retrieve files
found on anonymous FTP archive sites around the world.
Author: George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu)
Maintained-by: George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu)
Maintained-at: FTP.cs.rochester.edu
Platforms: X11 based program written in C. Known to run on Sun 3's
and Sun 4's under SunOS 3.X and 4.X
Copying-policy: Freely Redistributable. Copyright held by author.
Keywords: archie, X11, anonymous FTP archive, software location
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From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: NEW linux ftp site (banjo ressurected)
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:28:47 GMT
In article <4514@news.duke.edu> magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>(sorry if you've seen this before. i posted it in non-80 column mode)
>
>howdy all,
>
>I would like to announce a reincarnation of banjo. As a result of some
>marathon FTP sessions, all of banjo has been reproduced on reggae.oit.unc.edu
>in ftp/pub/pc-stuff/Linux. I will be actively maintaining this so, uploads
>are most encouraged.
How about making the pub/pc-stuff/Linux/Incoming directory writable. :-)
-Eric
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From: magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: NEW linux ftp site (banjo ressurected)
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:50:12 GMT
In article <3337@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
>In article <4514@news.duke.edu> magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>> uploads are most encouraged.
>
>How about making the pub/pc-stuff/Linux/Incoming directory writable. :-)
>
done. oops. if you have any further reccomendations for such luxury
treatment, I can be reached at jem@reggae.oit.unc.edu.
jem
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