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From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
Subject: [amiga] Re: Xanth
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Archive-name: xanth.cs.odu.edu/17-Jul-90
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Original-subject: Re: Xanth
Archive-site: xanth.cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]
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In article <1990Jul16.191716.21157@portia.Stanford.EDU> parrot@adelbert9.stanford.edu (DS Farrar) writes:
> Where is xanth?

Xanth (really xanth.cs.odu.edu) is an aged VAX-11/785 running 4.3BSD
UNIX.  It's located in the Computer Science department of Old Dominion
University, in Norfolk, Virginia USA.

> And what kinds of files does it contain?  Is it mainly graphics,
> sound, pd utilities, etc.?

There's three main areas of interest to Amiga owners:

	/amiga		-- misc amiga utilities, demos, etc.
	/usenet		-- archives of some moderated code groups, including
			   comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga.
	/incoming/amiga -- misc amiga stuff that hasn't moved to /amiga,
			   contributed by users via anonymous ftp

Xanth is accessible via normal anonymous ftp, or via the BITFTP server
(bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu)...

	...tad
