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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!usenet From: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: Monthly Reminder: comp.os.386bsd news archive via ftp Supersedes: <bsdfaq_752972637@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> Followup-To: poster Date: 10 Nov 1993 16:49:42 -0800 Organization: ADFA, Canberra, Australia Lines: 103 Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <bsdfaq_752975305@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu Summary: Where to get old comp.os.386bsd news Keywords: comp.os.386bsd, news, archive, ftp, telnet, minnie This is a reminder that the Usenet news from comp.os.386bsd.* and comp.unix.bsd (aka `bsdnews') is available from minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.20.70], via both anonymous ftp and an archie-like interface. Ftp --- The Usenet news archive is available on minnie in the directory bsdnews. Also, the directory 386bsd contains the virgin 386bsd-0.1 bindist, plus the patchkits to bring 386bsd-0.1 to unofficial patchkit level 0.2.4 The bsdnews archive is kept as a set of gzip files, each containing 100 news articles. For example, 3400.tar.z contains articles 3400 to 3499. The archive is kept in directories containing groups of 10 gzip files. For example, the directory 06000 holds files 6000.tar.z to 6900.tar.z. The `subjects' directory holds the files with the subject line. For example, 03000subject holds the subject lines for files 3000 to 3999. These files are ordered by subject, not by article number. The file `dates' gives you a rough chronology of the files archived on minnie. [ and here is the file `dates' ] Date Minnie File Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15 Jun 92 ---- 386bsd-0.1 released 18 Jun 92 1600 17 Jul 92 2000 3 Aug 92 3000 21 Aug 92 4000 14 Sep 92 5000 21 Sep 92 5343 Unofficial Patchkit 0.1 released 3 Oct 92 6000 24 Oct 92 7000 23 Nov 92 8000 18 Dec 92 9000 17 Jan 93 10000 25 Jan 93 10349 Unofficial Patchkit 0.2 released 11 Feb 93 11000 13 Feb 93 11062 Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.1 released 15 Jun 93 11187 XFree86 1.2 released 27 Feb 93 12000 18 Mar 93 13000 21 Mar 93 13119 Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.2 released 4 Apr 93 14000 20 Apr 93 14760 Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.3 released 23 Apr 93 15000 6 May 93 15735 NetBSD 0.8 released 13 May 93 16000 11 Jun 93 17000 16 Jun 93 17237 XFree86 1.3 released 22 Jun 93 17403 Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.4 released 6 Jul 93 18000 29 Jul 93 19000 23 Aug 93 19924 NetBSD 0.9 released 25 Aug 93 20000 2 Sep 93 20335 FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA released 19 Sep 93 21000 7 Oct 93 22000 29 Oct 93 23000 31 Oct 93 23092 XFree86 2.0 released 1 Nov 93 23150 FreeBSD 1.0 RELEASE released Bsdnews ------- Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the news on 386BSD, taken from the Usenet newsgroups comp.os.386bsd.* and comp.unix.bsd. This archive can be accessed either via telnet or email. You can do two things: + search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern + retrieve particular articles To do this by email, you send email to bsdnews@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, with your commands in the body of the email. The commands are: help - get help about the service grep <egrep pattern> - look for this pattern in the subject lines read <article> - retrieve the specific article quit - lines after this command will be ignored You can send multiple commands in an email to minnie. Your return email will have your command lines and the results of each command line. You can also access the 386BSD news archive on minnie with telnet. Simply telnet to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and login as `bsdnews'. The commands to use the service are the same as for the email service. You can set/unset both TERM and PAGER, if you want to get a page at a time. Use the help command to get more help on the service. *** Note *** The telnet version of bsdnews now has a case-insensitive grep/prog function. Simply do grep -i word to do a case-insensitive search. ---- Warren Toomey wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu