** ** README File for Windows Archive at ftp.cica.indiana.edu ** ** Last Updated: Thu Oct 15 19:05:37 1992 ** ** Introduction The Internet site ftp.cica.indiana.edu (129.79.20.84) is an anonymous-ftp clearinghouse for MicroSoft Windows (version 3.x only) applications, tips, utilities, drivers, bitmaps, etc. (The machine is a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1 with 8Mb of main memory and 15GB shared file space.) CICA (Center for Innovative Computer Applications) currently provides to the anonymous ftp user, free of charge, over 150Mb of PUBLIC DOMAIN and SHAREWARE Windows-related files. The files are *NOT* virus or trojan-checked, and by retrieving software from CICA, you assume full responsibility for their use on your machine(s). Ftp activity at CICA is relentless: Approximately 48,000 logins per month (or, an average of 1,625 ftp logins per day). Therefore users who access this site are URGED to do so during the non-load hours of 7pm to 7am Eastern Standard Time. Abuse of the system during load hours will not be tolerated. You may find the program AUTOFTP, located in pub/Unix/autoftp.zoo, helpful to you in automating ftp file transfers during non-load hours. This program can be scheduled at non-peak hours to download files from any ftp site. ** Internet Access To access CICA, type "ftp 129.79.20.84" to your prompt. You'll be asked for a login name (type "anonymous"). Enter your username (e.g., "bob@black.lodge.wa.edu") If you want to be adventurous and automate the login process, create a file in your home directory called ".netrc" and make it accessible only by you (e.g., "chmod og-rwx .netrc") and add the lines: machine ftp.cica.indiana.edu login anonymous password enter_your_username@machine.domain.here This will now eliminate the prompting of your username and password upon subsequent ftp sessions. ** Mail Server Access Some lucky individuals have had success accessing the files at anonymous ftp sites using the BITNET ftp server at Princeton University. To find out more about this, send a one-line mail message containing the word HELP to one of the following addresses: bitftp@pucc.BITNET bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Help will be sent to you in the form of electronic mail. Please don't send mail requesting UUCP or mail access to the files here. We simply don't. ** BITNET Win3-L Listserv Mailing List To be added to the Listserv mailing list for Windows 3.x, please send e-mail to listserv@uicvm.BITNET requesting "help". The actual mailing list where discussions take place is "win3-l@uicvm.BITNET" (Mail to this list is gatewayed, at many sites, to the "bit.listserv.win3-l" newsgroup.) ** Software Overview At this writing, the following Windows areas are represented by the CICA archives. Area Directory ----------------------- --------------------- Various Windows Demo Programs pub/pc/win3/demo Desktop Image, Util, BMP Files pub/pc/win3/desktop Software Drivers/Printers pub/pc/win3/drivers/printer Software Drivers/Video pub/pc/win3/drivers/video Windows Soft Fonts pub/pc/win3/fonts Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Fonts pub/pc/win3/fonts/atm TrueType Fonts pub/pc/win3/fonts/truetype Windows Games and Diversions pub/pc/win3/games Windows Icons, Icon Editors, etc. pub/pc/win3/icons Miscellaneous Files (tips, etc.) pub/pc/win3/misc Windows NT Files pub/pc/win3/nt Windows Programming pub/pc/win3/programr Asymetrix ToolBook Applications pub/pc/win3/toolbook Borland C++ Windows Programs pub/pc/win3/programr/bcpp Program Listings from Publications pub/pc/win3/programr/listings Windows Turbo Pascal Programming pub/pc/win3/programr/tp Windows Visual Basic Programming pub/pc/win3/programr/vbasic Windows Sounds and Util Files pub/pc/win3/sounds Windows Supplemental Devlpmnt Lib pub/pc/win3/sdl ++General Windows Utilities pub/pc/win3/util Word for Windows Utilities, Files pub/pc/win3/winword Windows Resource Kit Files pub/pc/win3/wrk WordPerfect for Windows Utils pub/pc/win3/wpwin ++ Currently the general Windows utilities directory contains a plethora of files. We hope to soon organize these files into their respective general areas of use (e.g., util/communications, util/file (editors, viewers, disk utilities), util/pim (personal information managers, calendars, organizers, schedulers, etc.), util/graphics (clocks, screen savers, paint programs, video software, etc.) util/printing, etc.). ** Getting Software: The INDEX and ls-ltR Files Go into the win3 directory ("cd pub/pc/win3"), and see what we have by getting the ASCII file called "INDEX" (type "get INDEX" to your ftp prompt). The INDEX file contains a list of all the files available on CICA, organized by subdirectory. Each listing consists of the file's name, date received (YYMMDD format), and a brief, and an oftentimes subjective description of the file. The INDEX file is updated only after new files in the "uploads" area have been moved into appropriate subdirectory on disk. (Set your tab stops at 8 for correct viewing.) If you would like to view the file during your ftp session, type: ftp> get INDEX |more (Note there is no space before the "more" command.) The file "ls-ltR" is an output from the "ls -ltR" command on the entire Windows directory structure. This file presents an ordered list sorted BY DATE of the files in each subdirectory. This file is updated several times daily. ** Downloading Software Public domain and Shareware utilities maintained here are in compressed format. You will need to have either ZOO, PKUNZIP, PKXARC, or LHARC to work with these files on the PC. Look in the pub/pc/starter directory if you don't have these utilities. Change into individual directories (e.g., "cd fonts") and issue a "dir" or "ls -CF" command to see the available files. When you are ready to download, tell ftp you're transferring binary files (type "tenex" or "binary" [or worse yet, "quote type L"] to your ftp prompt) and you're ready to retrieve files (e.g., "get filename"). ** Uploading Software Please place all uploads in the pub/pc/win3/uploads subdirectory. The same rules apply to uploading as downloading: if the file is binary, type "tenex" (or "binary" or "quote type L") first before doing a "put filename". There is a standard file format here so that you won't need fifteen different file compression utilities to unwrap the software. Therefore, please use PKZIP (version 1.1 or later) or ZOO (version 2.00 or later) to wrap your software. PKZIP-Self Extracting Archive Files may be uploaded and will probably be converted to .ZIPs at a later date (especially self-extracting .EXE files that are ZIP-ped!) Lastly, and most importantly, files placed in the "uploads" directory that contain no clue as to their usefulness will be removed. ** Files NOT Accepted at ftp.cica.indiana.edu As is a standard practice with most anonymous-ftp sites (that are supported with funds from an independent host institution), certain programs, files, or software are outside the general scope of archive operations, and therefore will NOT be accepted. These files include (but are not limited to) any software: containing political, religious, racist, ethnic, or other prejudiced or discriminatory messages therein; that is adult or sexually-explicit in nature; otherwise considered unsuitable by the site moderator. ** A Note About Bitmap Files (.BMP) Since the inception of this archive in June 1990, many thousands of users have had access to these files and plenty of time to "snarf and share" the bitmap images with their friends, families, and their favorite local bulletin boards and ftp sites. Therefore, the images stored here will age six months before they are purged. This is the only relief valve we currently have to keep disk space alive for the other files. ** Mirror Sites to the CICA Ftp Collection Several other Internet archives "mirror" the CICA collection; that is, they maintain an exact mirror image of the files contained here on their own machine. One of the major benefits of mirror sites is that you can select a site close to home. This will generally increase the speed and reliability of connections for those folks overseas. Some sites currently mirrorring us include: NORTH AMERICA wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] in mirrors2/win3 gandalf.umcs.maine.edu [130.111.112.21] grind.isca.uiowa.edu [128.255.19.233] in msdos/win3 gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2] in /.2/micro/msdos/win3 OVERSEAS vmsa.technion.ac.il [132.68.7.2] (Israel Institute of Technology) nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] (Switzerland) monu6.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.106] (Monash Univ, Melbourne Australia) nctuccca.edu.tw [140.111.3.21] (Chiao Tung Univ, Hsinchu, Taiwan) src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1] (JANET mirror at Imperial College, London) Other ftp sites containing Windows files: United States ------------- ftp.hawaii.edu 128.171.44.2 grape.ecs.clarkson.edu 128.153.28.129 milton.u.washington.edu 128.95.136.1 serv1.cl.msu.edu 35.8.2.41 msdos.umich.edu 141.211.164.153 wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 Foreign/Overseas ---------------- bode.ee.ualberta.ca 129.128.16.96 ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43 forwiss.uni-passau.de 132.231.20.10 garbo.uwasa.fi 128.214.12.3 lut.fi 128.214.25.8 methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de 130.133.2.81 ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 archie.au 139.130.4.6 ** Collection Now Available on CD-ROM! As of 7 March 1992, the entire CICA Windows archive has been placed onto one CD-ROM disk. This disc, which conforms to the ISO-9660 standard, contains over 90Mb of files, and is available for $25US (plus $5US shipping and handling). (California residents please add 8.25% sales tax with your order.) Additional discs are $12.50US. To order, send a check, money order, or MasterCard/VISA information to: Robert A. Bruce, 1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA. Telephone: +1 800 786-9907 (or +1 510 947-5996 after 9AM PST). E-Mail: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu ** Questions? E-mail to ftp@cica.indiana.edu to get an automated reply of commonly asked questions and answers. To speak with a human, send mail to ftp-admin@cica.indiana.edu. Please don't send mail to cica@cica, postmaster@cica, or root@cica. They will produce no replies. ** A Reminder! Please, PLEASE remember to type "tenex" or "binary" or "quote type L" to your ftp program *BEFORE* uploading or downloading binary files. So many people report "corrupt files" when they didn't type "tenex" before downloading. Same goes for uploading files. Also, if you are stuck in the 1980s and are using KERMIT to transfer from your Unix (or VAX, God forbid) host to your PC, remember to tell kermit "set file type binary" before beginning the download. If you want to be adventurous, install Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem on your host machine. Chuck Forsberg's public domain sources are in ~ftp/pub/Unix/rzsz.zoo. ***************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************** ** ** ** DISCLAIMER ** ** ** ** UPLOADING COPYRIGHTED AND OTHERWISE RESTRICTED SOFTWARE TO THE UPLOADS ** ** DIRECTORY AT CICA IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. UNIVERSITY COMPUTING ** ** SERVICES' (UCS) CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (CICA) ** ** AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PLACEMENT AND ** ** ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF COPYRIGHTED SOFTWARE TO ITS UPLOADS DIRECTORY. ** ** ** ***************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************** -- Michael Regoli mr@cica.indiana.edu a.k.a. ftp-admin@cica.indiana.edu regoli@iubacs.bitnet ...rutgers!iuvax!cica!mr