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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:06:32 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Project Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2

From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Project Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 2 of 2

Here are the latest updates for FTP downloading of Project Gutenberg
etexts and others.  These updates will be posted on several listserv
locations once a month.  We hope we have answered most questions, as
new files, new locations, and new users arrive each month.  We can't
answer queries about nameservers or how your local system runs FTP!!

Please try to help people get text files as we are not well prepared
to deal with sending items through the mail.

Brief instructions are followed by more detailed instructions.

Here are places you can pick up the Project Gutenberg Etexts

East to West (details below)
quake.think.com is in Massachusetts
Cleveland Freenet and NPTN are in Ohio
mrcnext is in Illinois
The Almanac server is in Oregon
simtel20 is in New Mexico
The MSDOS portions of simtel are echoed on:
Oakland, Michigan
Oakland at oak.oakland.edu (141.210.10.117)
St. Louis at Washington University
wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
and many other sites.

You can ftp and get at least some files at ftp.cwru.edu (anonymous).
Also a new Gutenberg ftp site located at:  nptn.org (192.55.234.52).
Do an anonymous ftp into nptn.org.  cd /pub/e.texts/gutenberg
Then cd etext91 or etext92 to get to the books listed above.

Freenet and NPTN (National Public Telecomputing Network) are not the
same organization, though Tom Grundner is involved with both.
****
Please do not access the mrcnext machine from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Central Standard Time (Daylight in summer) as this is peak usage,
& mrcnext is always the first machine to get the newest editions.

Current releases are now listed in each newsletter.
Others texts are also available at the various sites.

For further information or to retrieve electronic books:

FTP directly to the Project Gutenberg archives:

ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
or
ftp 128.174.201.12

login:  anonymous

password:  name@login  [your email address]

cd etext/etext91 [for 1991 releases]
cd etext/articles [for Project Gutenberg articles and newsletters]
cd etext92 [for 1992 releases] if /etext/etext92 is down

dir [to see files]

get or mget [to get files. . .set bin for zip files]

GET INDEX
for a list of books
and
GET NEW GUT
for general information
and
MGET GUT*
for newsletters.

MORE DETAILS
ls -a or dir (This will give you a directory listing, case sensitive)
get filename.filetype
(examples . . . )
dir     (to see current editions available) (RETURN to see next page)
get alice29.txt
get lglass16.txt
get snark12.txt
quit
*****

You may have to get local instructions for linking to FTP,
and/or setting memory for FTP.  These files also available
via disk on request in several formats.  Some Bitnet sites
have FTP emulators, check with your local guru.

The current FTP sites are:

mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or (128.174.201.12)  cd /etext (details above)
(Please do NOT use the mrcnext between 10AM and 6PM weekdays)

Named the Almanac information server, located at the Extension Service
at Oregon State University, allows text retrieval both through ftp and
email (for Bitnet users).  Works from To retrieve a file via ftp:

ftp oes.orst.edu           (128.193.124.2)
Log in as `anonymous' and your login name as a password.
cd /pub/almanac/guten
ls                         (to get a list of files)
bin                        (to switch to binary mode)
get filename               (where `filename' was one of the files listed)
bye                        (when done)

To retrieve a file via e-mail, first send the following line by
itself to almanac@oes.orst.edu

     send gutenberg catalog

This will instruct you how to send further requests, and will list
the available files.  For example, to retrieve _Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland_, send to almanac@oes.orst.edu

     send gutenberg alice
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quake.think.com (192.31.181.1)
cd pub
cd etext91 or cd etext92
Our thanks to Brewster Kahle!

(Our thanks to Thinking Machines Corporation)
(Located in Cambridge, MA near Boston)
*********

simtel20.army.mil or (192.88.110.20)
cd pd1:<msdos.books>
Also known as WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
(This computer has great archives and is used a lot, takes time)
=========
The MSDOS portions of simtel are echoed on:
wuarchive.wustl.edu
Name:    wuarchive.wustl.edu
Address:  128.252.135.4
(Please report your efforts on wuarchive, we need a guru for it)

(wuarchive also echoed on mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in the mirrors dir.

The real name for simtel20 is:
WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL

NOTE; Type B is Binary: Type A is ASCII

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.BOOKS>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
ALICE11.ZIP   B   61702  901218  Lewis Carroll-ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

LGLASS10.ZIP  B   70039  901217  THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll

SIMTEL20 allows standard ANONYMOUS ftp with password GUEST.

cd pd1:<msdos.books>
type tenex
get alice11.zip
get lglass11.zip
bye

If your FTP does not have TENEX mode, use BINARY mode.  If the files
are not readable after transferring in BINARY mode, try again with
these two commands to set the mode:

type binary

quote "TYPE L 8"

The double quotes are required.

|       The trend of library policy is clearly toward
|       the ideal of making all information available
|       without delay to all people.
|
|The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM)
|(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.

Thank you for your interest,

Michael S. Hart, Project Gutenberg Executive Director
National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts

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the views of any person or institution.  Neither Prof
Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts
with the University of Illinois.

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