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NOTE: Most files in the archive are Postscript files. This is a platform independent language for specifying the layout of text and graphics on a printed page. Most modern printers can accept postscript files (that commonly end in the extension .ps) and will print them properly. You cannot view a postscript file as a regular ASCII file in an editor - you need a Postscript viewer (like ghostview). Many of these are freely available on archive sites around the net.
BE AWARE OF EXPORT RESTRICTIONS IF YOU DOWNLOAD CRYTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE - see /pub/auc/README.export if you have any doubts.
I know GNU do tools for DOS platforms (which are essentially ports of their UNIX tools). You can also get the Mortice-Kern toolkit (MKS) for DOS, which gives you a UNIX shell and programs for DOS. It's a commercial package (not expensive) and comes with good documentation.
Once you uncompress the files, you will need a postscript viewer to view them on-screen. Your printer will probably print them out fine, as most modern printers can handle postscript files.
Or, you can use the Web pages to get to what you're after: http://www.cs.purdue. edu/coast
As for viewing - the files are compressed Postscript. They are compressed using the UNIX compress command. They can be uncompressed using...uncompress! You wil l need Mac equivalents of these commands (and of the gzip/gunzip combo). Get the se from a Mac archive site.
The documents can only be viewed in a Postscript viewer or printed on a postscri pt compatible printer (most printers these days). If you don't have a viewer, go to an archive site nearest you and obtain one.
If you have WWW access, consult http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/archive/index.html which will introduce you to the archive, its layout and provide you with a search mechanism. It's not perfect yet, but we're working on it!
If you have WWW access, consult http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/archive/index.html which will introduce you to the archive, its layout and provide you with a search mechanism. It's not perfect yet, but we're working on it!
If you maintain a copy on your local machine, we would like to mirror it into the archive on a regular basis. Please let us know if we can make a weekly copy of it.
We mirror from our sources twice every week. It may be worthwhile to go to the original site if you know exactly what package you want to get. If you are looking for subject specific groupings (i.e. all documents on networking), then it is easier to mirror from our archive.
Please respect the copyright notices on any packages you mirror and keep them intact. Also, please do your mirroring at off-peak hours (11pm - 6am EST).
We have tried to remove any package that is not ITAR compliant from the archive. However, it is quite likely that we missed a few. Please try to watch out for packages that would violate ITAR. Also, be sure to put the ITAR message prominently in your archive, just to be sure! (it's in /pub/README.export).
As for the technical side of mirroring: we mirror packages from remote sites into our "mirrors" tree: /pub/mirrors. Sub-directories there give per-site packages. However, we encourage users to access the archive via the "subject" tree: /pub/doc for documents/papers and /pub/tools for tools. I would encourage you to mirror the subject tree where possible.
If you find yourself mirroring the mirrors tree, it would be easier for us to give you our mirror control file and allow you to mirror directly from the home site.
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