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From: dale@cec2.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
Subject: Re: mirrors
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.162656.12593@cec1.wustl.edu>
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
References: <25067@hydra.gatech.EDU> <MORGAN.91Mar29002441@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 16:26:56 GMT

In article <MORGAN.91Mar29002441@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dylan Kaufman) writes:
>In article <25067@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
>
>   From: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard)
>   Date: 27 Mar 91 07:26:56 GMT
>
>   It's been at least three days, and no connection to simtel.  The mirror
>   site at wustl is dead.  I've forgotten the names of the other mirror
>   sites.  Pointers, anyone?
>
>Ummm... correct me if I'm wrong, but wuarchive.wustl.edu is certainly
>back...  I used it yesterday.  The message that they had up about the
>drive being dead isn't correct any longer...  it's back (I use
>ange-ftp and dired inside emacs so I don't even see that message...
>took me a long time to figure out why the directory listing was only
>showing one file... (didn't think to read it) ;) )

wuarchive is most definately back!!! The hard disk is fixed. The archives
are a little behind but catching up. (I'm waiting for the new KERMIT)
BTW did you know you can mount wuarchive as a NFS server? I'm running
Beame & Whiteside NFS on a DOS machine. wuarchive is mounted as drive
W: (of course!). I unarc directly off wuarchive. (Heaven, I'm in heaven!)
No ftping files to a local machine and then downloading to my machine.
Anyone can mount wuarchive across the net. Try it, you'll like.

For you DOS fans here's the B&W command to mount wuarchive:

net link w: \\128.252.135.4\/mirrors

have fun!!

Dale Frye
Washington University in St. Louis


