From: hem@col400.att.com
Subject: alt.startrek.creative FAQ
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:26:00 GMT

>Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative,rec.arts.startrek.misc
>Subject: Star Trek story archive (weekly FAQ -- automated posting)

>Followup-To: alt.startrek.creative
>Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
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>Distribution: world
>Message-ID: <jfy.719406018@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: depot.cis.ksu.edu
>Summary: Description of archive of ST stories and how to access it
>Keywords: Stories, FTP, Mail Server, ST, TNG
>
>Last updated: 17 Oct 1992
>
>------------------------------FTP--------------------------------------
>I've seen many inquiries about an anonymous ftp archive for the
>stories that appear in alt.startrek.creative.  As others have
>mentioned, I maintain an archive on ftp.cis.ksu.edu (129.130.10.80) in
>the directory /pub/Startrek/stories.  All files are compressed using
>the UNIX LZW ".Z" compression used by the "compress" and "uncompress"
>programs.  For non-UNIX systems, there are sourcess and binaries
>available to handle files in this format on various archive sites.
>If you still cannot find a program to handle UNIX compressed files, use the
>archive mail server described below.
>
>If you find a story that I've missed, especially any of the ones that
>appeared early in the life of this group or in the rec.arts.startrek.*
>groups, mail it to me (jfy@cis.ksu.edu) or upload it to /pub/upload on
>the archive site.
>
>If you have any contributions to the archive, suggestions, etc. you
>may also email them to me.
>-----------------------------Mail--------------------------------------
>For all those unfortunates who don't have Internet ftp access, I've
>setup a mailserver to provide access to the archives on
>ftp.cis.ksu.edu.
>
>This mailserver can be contacted via mail one of the following
>addresses:
>
>...!rutgers!depot!mailserver  (UUCP)
>mailserver@cis.ksu.edu        (Internet)
>
>The server accepts commands given in the body of the mail messages;
>help is available with the command "help".  
>
>A listing of the files in
>the story archive may be obtained by "dir -l /pub/Startrek/stories".
>
>Since the story archive consists of UNIX compressed files, they must
>be uuencoded before they are sent on their way.  To specify this mode,
>use the command "encode uuencode"  To retrieve the files, use the
>"send" command (ex:  send /pub/Startrek/stories/Bestseller.Z).
>
>If you have a system which cannot handle UNIX compressed files, you may use
>the "uncompress" filter ("encode uncompress") 
>which will send you the uncompressed (but not uuencoded) version of the file.
>
>Here is an example mail message:
>
>% Mail mailserver@cis.ksu.edu
>Subject: request 
>help
>encode uue     
>send /pub/Startrek/stories/Bestseller.Z
>^D
>%
>
>Please note that this is completely experimental and is not bug free.
>Questions and problems about this mailserver may be directed to
>"mailserver-reply@cis.ksu.edu".
>
>
>
>-- 
>Joseph Young, Systems Programmer
>KSU Department of Computing and Information Sciences
>Manhattan, Kansas 66506  FAX: (913) 532-7353  Phone: (913) 532-6350   
>Internet: jfy@cis.ksu.edu  UUCP: rutgers!depot!jfy 
>
>ftp.harford.edu has a lot of parodies
>
>>>In case this is of general interest there is a pretty nice set of ST sound
>>>files (*.au format) at procyon.cis.ksu.edu for anonymous ftp. 
>
>* I do like the "com-functions" file from smaug.cs.hope.edu.  More, more!
>  How about the computer saying things like "Please specify" and other
>  "standard" computer sound bites?
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