Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.parallel.pvm
From: djb1@ukc.ac.uk (Dave Beckett)
Subject: Transputer, occam and parallel computing archive: ADMIN
Summary: See NEW FILES article for details of new files
Keywords: transputer, occam, parallel, archive, anonymous ftp
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:39:16 GMT
Message-ID: <84@nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk>

This is the administrative information article for the Transputer,
occam and parallel computing archive.  Please consult the accompanying
article for details of the new files and areas.

Since the last posting at the end of November 1993, I've added another
9 megabytes of files to the archive at unix.hensa.ac.uk in /parallel.
It currently contains over 82 Mbytes of freely distributable software
and documents, in the Transputer, occam and parallel computing subject
area.


STATISTICS
~~~~~~~~~~
>5520 users accessed archive (1100 more than last time)
>3920 Mbytes transfered (670MB more)
  since the archive was started in early May.

Top 10 files accessed, excluding Index files
 1022 /parallel/README
  516 /parallel/info/ls-lR*
  469 /parallel/pictures/T9000-schematic.ps.Z
  445 /parallel/info/FullIndex.ascii*
  428 /parallel/books/ios/nrat/Chapter10a.ps.gz
  419 /parallel/books/ios/nrat/Overview
  405 /parallel/books/ios/nrat/Chapter1.ps.gz
  393 /parallel/books/ios/nrat/Introduction.ps.gz
  388 /parallel/documents/inmos/occam/manual3.ps.Z
  376 /parallel/books/ios/nrat/Chapter10b.ps.gz

The Networks, Routers and Transputers book is still high in the chart along
with the occam3 draft reference manual.


WHERE IS IT?
~~~~~~~~~~~
At the HENSA (Higher Education National Software Archive) UNIX
archive.  The HENSA/UNIX archive is accessible via an interactive
browsing facility, called fbr as well as email, DARPA ftp, gopher and
NI-FTP (Blue Book) services.  For details, see below.


HOW DO I FIND WHAT I WANT?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The files are all located in /parallel and each directory contains a
short Index file of the contents.

If you want to check what has changed in between these postings, look
at the /parallel/Changes file which contains the new files added.

There is also a full text index available of all the files in
/parallel/index/FullIndex.ascii but be warned - it is very large (over 200K).
Compressed and gzipped versions are in the same directory.

For those UNIX dweebs, there are output files of ls-lR in
/parallel/index/ls-lR along with compressed and gzipped versions too.


HOW DO I CONTACT IT?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are several ways to access the files which are described below
- log in to the archive to browse files and retrieve them by email;
transfer files by DARPA FTP over JIPS or use Blue Book NI-FTP.


Logging in:
~~~~~~~~~~~
JANET X.25 network:
	call uk.ac.hensa.unix (or 000049200900 if you do not have NRS)

JIPS: 
	telnet unix.hensa.ac.uk	(or 129.12.21.7)

Once connected, use the login name 'archive' and your email address to
enter. You will then be placed inside the fbr restricted shell. Use the
help command for up to date details of what commands are available.


Transferring files by FTP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DARPA ftp from JIPS/the internet:
	site: unix.hensa.ac.uk (or 129.12.21.7)
        login: anonymous
        password: <your email address>
                    
Use the 'get' command to transfer a file from the remote machine to
the local one.  When transferring a binary file it is important to
give the command 'binary' before initiating the transfer.  For more
details of the 'ftp' command, see the manual page by typing 'man ftp'.


The NI-FTP (Blue Book) request over JANET
        <ARCHIVE>path-of-file  from uk.ac.hensa.unix
        Username: guest
        Password: <your email address>
                    
The program to do an NI-FTP transfer varies from site to site but is
usually called hhcp or fcp.  Ask your local experts for information.


Transferring files by Email
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To obtain a specific file email a message to
      archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk
containing the single line
      send path-of-file
or 'help' for more information.


Browsing and transferring by gopher
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Starting at the Root Minnesota Gopher gopher, select the following entries:

	8.  Other Gopher and Information Servers/

	5.  Europe/

	37. United Kingdom/

	15. HENSA unix (National software archive, University of Kent), (UK)/

	3.  The UNIX HENSA Archive at the University of Kent at Canterbury/

	9.  Parallel Archive/

and browse the archive as normal.  [The numbers are very likely to change]
The short descriptions are abbreviated to fit on an 80 column display
but the long ones can always be found under 'General Information.' (the
Index files).  Updates to the gopher tree follow a little behind the
regular updates.  We are also working on the software that generates so
please bear with us if some of the areas are incomplete.


COMING SOON
~~~~~~~~~~~
A HUGE bibliography of occam papers, PhD theses and publications - currently
  about 2000 entries.
A freely distributable occam compiler for workstations.
A couple of free occam compilers for transputers.
Some articles from older occam User Group newsletters.
Decent WWW access.


DONATIONS
~~~~~~~~~
Donations are very welcome.  We do not allow uploading of files directly
but if you have something you want to donate, please contact me.

Dave Beckett

