Uploads and Downloads

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

Verbum sap.: If you haven't logged on for a while and find your keyboard now
does strange things, be advised that on 5 July SAS changed its parity setting
to 8-N-1.

Let me bring you up to date on files available for downloading. They are all
listed in a newly updated text file named CATALOG.DOC, which you can download
with a GET message to the list server. The three other new files described in
it are:

SERIAL.DOC, a text file available through the EASCI list. It contains an
up-to-date list of periodicals in the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge,
courtesy of the Librarian, John Moffett. Chinese titles are listed in Pinyin.

SMARTS23.ZIP, a binary file available via anonymous FTP from the list server,
posted primarily for XYWRITE users. It contains a suite of XPL utilities and
other small programs (including one that, given a New York street address,
tells you the cross street!) written and provided by Carl di Stefano. He will
send a message to the XYWRITE list to introduce it. If you are on another list
and want it, the new version of CATALOG.DOC will tell how to get it. If you
let me know you want a copy of his message, I will send it to you privately
(not necessary for XYWRITE subscribers).

Inspired by Carl's generosity, I have loaded up my own very miscellaneous
XPL utilities and highly customized keyboard into XPLNS.ZIP. If you have
written or adapted from classic public domain utilities XYWRITE 4 versions of
your own, you may also want to contribute them. If so, contact me.

Prior discussions on the EASCI list are being compiled monthly, and the
compilations can be downloaded if you joined late and want to review them. All
the discussions so far are available in files EAAN and XYWRITE. Once
discussions become so frequent on EAAN and XYWRITE that those files become too
bulky, they too will be compiled monthly. In fact the time has come to do it
with XYWRITE, beginning 1 August. The EAAN subscribers for some reason are so
far not very enterprising about seeking information, starting arguments,
sharing resources. You can find the few messages so far in the file EAAN.

CATALOG.DOC explains how to download text and binary files using anonymous FTP
(if it is available on your system). All such files are found at the
CCAT.SAS.UPENN.EDU server, in directory /pub/eaan ONLY. It is open to you
whether or not you subscribe to EAAN.

Updated copies of the general INFO files, sent to subscribers when they join,
have been posted. You can order them with this message to the list server:
info 

Keep in mind that you do not have to subscribe to a list to download files in
its area.

-- Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325