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From: dale@cec2.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
Subject: Re: Wuarchive is not mirroring!
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.164631.5653@cec1.wustl.edu>
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
References: <EbyhsLy00WB4AGzV95@andrew.cmu.edu> <1991Apr4.131225.19910@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 16:46:31 GMT

In article <1991Apr4.131225.19910@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Miramar) writes:
>am42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alexander Paul Morris) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know why the Wuarchive SIMTEL20 mirrors have not been updated
>>recently?  I thought they used to be updated every day.  I have files I
>>want off of SIMTEL that have been there for over a weeks and are still not
>>on wuarchive!
>
>Wuarchive recently had a disk crash on one of their largest drives and
>unfortunately this is also where most or all of the MSDOS stuff were kept.
>They are probly busy fixing the drive now so expect some delay while their
>backlog is cleared.
>

Just talked to Chris Myers (sys op for wuarchive), he said they have started
updating wuarchive from another mirror site. The update should be about done.
The files I'm looking for have arrived (Kermit 3.10). The reason for the 
delay was due to the channel to simtel. It is a 56k line that is very busy.
Wuarchive should be fairly up to date now and back on it's regular update
schedule.

I highly recommend mounting wuarchive via NFS. It's so much easier to use.

wuarchive.wustl.edu             128.252.135.4

NFS mounts
/archives
/archives/mirrors          (where simtel is mirrored)

Dale Frye
Washington University in ST. Louis

