From: ameen@swi.psy.uva.nl (Ameen Abu-Hanna)
Subject: ftp.nevada.edu (was Re: LOTS OF TAB!!! (long) in alt.guitar.tab)
Organization: Social Science Informatics, University of Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:01:56 GMT

Have posted this in alt.guitar.tab, follow-ups here please.

In article <1dq6thINN5bl@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> indigo@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Adam Schneider) writes:
>
>In <8f06NXy00iUy892Fl7@andrew.cmu.edu> "Andrew N. Westmeyer" <aw36+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>  In response to Ian Scmidt's post that
>>everyone's known about that ftp site for a long time:  WRONG!!!  I have
...
>>Andrew

>  Okay, okay, but please don't post any more 1000-line posts of stuff that's
>been in the archive for a long time (and most probably got there because it
>was posted to _this_group_).  I thought, cool, there's more Patsy Cline
>stuff, but it turned out it was the music I had just typed in a couple weeks
>ago.
>
>  Here's a kind of cool trick I discovered: the command "mls" (when you're
>in FTP) will send you a listing of all the files in a directory.  Type 
>"mls *" or something, when you're in the pub/guitar directory, and you'll
>get a file that has _every_song_ listed.
...
>Adam

Agree that not everybody knows about the ftp in nevada but it is useless
to (re)post the files here. I guess the FAQ of this newsgroup (or actually
"music.makers.guitar.tablature") should take care of that. If you want to ftp
to nevada, you should do the following:

ftp ftp.nevada.edu
Login as "anonymous" (thus don't press directly return when the system asks for 
your account), then give your password as your address (e.g., 
"guitarman@blues_city.music_land"). You get the ">ftp" prompt,
type "?" for the ftp commands. you can get the "README" file by typing
"get README", then goto the /pub/guitar directory (>ftp cd /pub/guitar,
hey don't type the ">ftp" it is just the prompt;-)),
I suggest you get the README file of this directory (>ftp get README, note
that this will overwrite any file with this name in your local directory, you
can type in a new filename to save it elsewhere:  
">ftp get README README_guitar").

The following tips are helpful:

* Use the "mls" command pointed out above or get the INDEX file!
(>ftp get INDEX) it includes the contents of the
/pub/guitar directory and all sub-directories, making it is much easier
to search for songs in the INDEX and once you know they are there, you
can get them. The INDEX file looks like this:

AC_DC:
total 6
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb       2256 Aug  5 14:53 HellsBells.tab
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb       2910 May  5 15:30 YouShookMeAllNightLong.crd

Adrian_Belew:
total 3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb       2133 Jun  5 13:59 BalletForABlueWhale.tab
...
Note that the INDEX file is not directly updated, I just found out for example
that:

ftp> dir AC_DC
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 15
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb   45           2278 Sep 21 11:35 ForThoseAboutToRock.tab
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb   45           2256 Aug  5 14:53 HellsBells.tab
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb   45           5154 Oct 15 13:45 YouShookMe.tab
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jamesb   45           2910 May  5  1992 YouShookMeAllNightLong.crd
226 Transfer complete.
remote: AC_DC

Meaning that more songs are already added without being reflected in the INDEX
(In this case those with ftp ability can use the mls command).

* When you're already in /pub/guitar, the following:
">ftp get AC_DC/YouShookMeAllNightLong.crd" does not work (at least
not for me), you have first to ">ftp cd AC_DC" and once you're there
">ftp get YouShookMeAllNightLong.crd". The 

* Most of the following additional sites mirror ftp.ftp.nevada and some may
have more:
ftp freja.diku.dk
ftp cs.uwp.edu
ftp syrinx.umd.edu
The guitar directories are either in /pub/guitar or in pub/music/guitar.

hope this helps, --ameen.
PS. Since "alt.guitar.tab" will vanish soon and "music.makers.guitar.tablature"
will take its place I'm posting this there too.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature