Administrivia - archive update
Randall Raemon 
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:53:48 -0500


I finally got the list message archive updated, thru article 516
as of a few minutes ago.

The archive is available by ftp at

   ftp://dmz,shikahr,com,inter,net/pub/linguistics

There is no README file to explain the directory setup, so here's
the details.

There are two subdirectories, one called "zip" and one called "uuencoded".
The zip directory contains messages that are grouped together and
compressed with the Unix based Info-ZIP package, which is supposedly
compatible with other platforms, notably PC-based systems.

From experience, the zip file compression has been found to flat out
freeze some PC-based TCP/IP stacks. TCP/IP is supposed to be a data
transparent protocol. That's what the Internet is built on. Rather than
force someone to have to get a new TCP/IP stack, each *,zip file has
been encoded in an ASCII text, using the Unix standard uuencode program.
These encoded files are in the "uuencoded" directory. 

Each file is given a name that indicates which postings are included
in that archive. The postings are individual files, each given a number.
The name of the archive file gives the first posting article number
that in present in that archive. Archives have 50 or 100 articles.

-- 
Randall Raemon
email to owner-vulcan-l or rlr at the shikahr site
or the junk-bait address of    sargon*shikahr,com,inter,net