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This article is from the AmigaUUCP FAQ, by Marc SCHAEFER, with numerous contributions by others.

10.0) How To Get UUCP Stuff

1. UUCP Patches FTP sites.

The litamiga.epfl.ch:/pub/amiga/uucp directory is expected to contain all stuff posted in alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches. Please allow some delay from the time things are posted on alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches to the time they are available on litamiga. [128.178.151.32]

**NOTE** litamiga.epfl.ch is available from 1800 to 0900 GMT+2

Aminet: The ftp.eunet.ch mirrors (of which litamiga is) also have most of UUCP stuff. (/pub/aminet/comm/uucp)

2. Public UUCP sites.

    Site name:     alphanet.ch
    Login:         nuucp (changed)
    Phone number:  +41 38 41 40 81	(changed)
    Country:       Switzerland
    Modem norms:   up to V32bis MNP/V42bis
    Calling hours: 24 hour a day.
    Contents-file: ~/archives/README ~/ls-laR.gz
    Notes:         alphanet.ch is a UNIX system (mips.alphanet.ch), and
                   archives alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches. It also has some
                   aminet files. There are also Aminet files.
    Date of entry: Sat, 28 August 1993 11:00:04 CED

    Site name:     hactar.hanse.de
    Login:         nuucp
    Password:      nuucp
    Phone number:  +49 40 550 35 49
    Country:       West Germany
    Modem norms:   up to V32bis MNP/V42bis
    Calling hours: 21:00-10:00 UTC
    Contents-file: UUPUB:Contents(.Z|.F|.lha)
    Notes:         Get `~/$readme.1st` the first time you call. Running BMS
                   and a mailserver, mailserv@hactar.hanse.de
    Date of entry: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:51:39 +0200

3. BMS sites

Generally the file to get is BMS:PUB/FILES.

    Site address: adastra.cvl.va.us
    Restrictions: none
    Notes:        UUCP sources and binaries.
  
    Site address: brewey.cts.com   **** CLOSED ****
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        None.
  
    Site address: hactar.hanse.de
    Restrictions: None (yet). But make SURE you ARE reachable before getting
                  large files !!
    Notes:        UUCP sources and binaries. AmigaUUCP Plus. Refer to
                  BMS:pub/Files
  
    Site address: anaconda.bloomington.in.us
    Restrictions: None
    Notes:        Most files were lost in a disk crash. Some will be restored.
                  Probably only the UUCP system will remain downloadable.
                  BBS is +1 812 332 7379 (V32bis/V42bis) (Fido also)  


    Site address: haadav.boston.ma.us
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        14400 baud connection.  

    Site address: moose.cs.indiana.edu!dolmen
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        None  

    Site address: uunet.uu.net!decvax!ftlcpu
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        UUCP Patches.  

    Site address: seq.uncwil.edu!marin
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        Contains UUCP sources and binaries for AmigaOS, MacOS, and
                  MS-DOS.  

    Site address: dacami.cmhnet.org
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        ???  

    Site address: mirkwood.cam.org
    Restrictions: None known.
    Notes:        BETTY server. (see paragraph 4)  

    Site address: peti.GUN.de
    Restrictions: none
    Notes:        Holds the latest versions of all programs Peter Simons is
                  responsible for (eg AGetty, PMAIL, PGP, UUCP library project)
                  System administrator is Peter Simons <simons@peti.GUN.de>

4. Betty

Betty is an automatic "archie"-like system for BMS servers. It maintains a list of known BMS sites and their files. You can even request a server's list or find a program on a server via this method.

Betty maintains a database that lists all the files available on some BMS sites. To consult the Betty database, you send a mail message to the server describing what you are looking for. The server will reply your message with the results of the query. Here is an example:

        To: betty@mirkwood.cam.org
        Subject:
  
        prog commodity
        quit

And the reply would contain:

        From: nobody@mirkwood.cam.org
        To: hebrais@mirkwood.cam.org
        Subject: Betty
  
        [ ... ]
  
        Matches on deepthot.cary.nc.us:
        File:DOS2.0/
            FBLANK.LZH            26509 28-Sep-91 01:52:44 : SCN BLNK USING FRACTALS - COMMODITY

        Matches on mirkwood.cam.org:
        PUB:utilities/system/workbench/
            KCommodity.lha       218914 14-Jun-92 11:17:58

[ ... ]

Betty understands a number of commands. To get the HELP file, send a mail message to "betty@mirkwood.cam.org" with the word "help" in the subject line. You may contact the maintainer of Betty at "betty-request@mirkwood.cam.org".

5. FSP sites

Q (has been disabled) Try disun3.epfl.ch at port 9999, in subdirectory uucp.

6. Mailservers for getting the UUCP FAQ (this FAQ)

        mail to               fileserver@caron.ati.com
        request format        xsend auucp_faq.txt
  
        bms to                caron.ati.com
        request               files:auucp_faq.txt

 

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