Dutch PBM ftp site unregular README posting From: frits@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 13:55:52 +0000 Hi all, I thought it was time that I posted the readme for my PBM ftp site again. There has been some reorganisation lately. Also, this Christmas our computer network will be reorganised and I will have a LOT of megabytes extra available. As the purpose of this site is to collect PBM/PBeM games and info about them from all over the world I would like to know if there is anything that is not yet present. For example, it may be time to add VGA planets to the mirrors, especially since the connection to the German site is a bit slow. So, please send your comments to pbm-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl. Frits ********* Welcome to the PBM Info ftp region. Site : ftp.cp.tn.tudelft.nl Directory : /pub/pbm This directory contains any info I can get on PBM and PBEM games. For the time being it will probably mostly information from rec.games.pbm. For a quick overview of the world of PB(e)M please read Greg Lindahl's FAQ and games list. This should help you quickly find things of interest. Contents : Current setup Introduction Email address Uploading Squirrel mail server Gopher server Current setup : . General stuff that doesn't need its own directory pbm.faq Greg Lindahl's FAQ pbm.list Greg's list of PBM and PBeM games Confirmed Confirmed information Incoming Upload area Mirrors The mirrors Misc Miscelaneous stuff, references to other sites Unconfirmed Unconfirmed information Arena Scott Turner's Arena Atlantis Russell Wallace's Atlantis Diplomacy FAQ and AZ Gondor Dutch fantasy pbem by Vinnie Gentevoort Legends Anything I can get on Legends Olympia Information on Rich Skrenta's Olympia I (not II!) OlympiaII Alpha test docs PBM.Express Stuff from their BBS Pbem.fanzine Backissues of Greg Lindahl's PBEM Fanzine Sparf Mel Nicholson's Sparf Star.Empires Roger Lincoln's Star Empires Sugar.Ray Reinhard Schoen's boxing game TNyc Stephen Tihor's T'Nyc Trax Mel Nicholson's Trax Cs.utk.edu Mirror of /pub/bampton Galaxy and Blind Galaxy Ftp.astro.cf.ac.uk Mirror of /pub/outgoing/Items Legends, Dean Johnson's item lists Ftp.cd.chalmers.se Mirror of /pub/plateu The game Plateau Ftp.erg.sri.com Mirror of /pub/pbm PBeM mag, other game rules Ftp.netcom.com Mirror of /pub/starkey Diplomacy FAQ Heffalump.ucsf.edu Mirror of /pub/atlantis More Atlantis stuff RMPM Mirror of /pub/rmpm at cajal.uoregon.edu Mark Siegrist's RMPM game Sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca Mirror of /pub/traveller Traveller(TML) README Yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au Mirror of /pub/celemp Celestial Empire Introduction : Now, before you start downloading everything just read the following. This ftp site is run on a computer that is normally used for other things than answering ftp requests. (Like reading news and playing nethack :-)) So please don't jump in and blindly download everything. Just browse around and take the things that interest you. This especially goes for the Olympia region. Please read the 0README there also. That directory is HUGE! Recent files (the last seven days) are listed in 0FILES.RECENT All files are listed in the file INDEX. Mirroring is done every three days so the mirrored directories should be reasonable up to date. If you are closer to one of those sites try there before you try here. Remember, this site is all the way in Holland. Some of the mirrored stuff, like Legends and Dip., is also referenced from within other directories. Everything that is mirrored is put into a directory that has the same name as the site it is mirrored from. So, if you want to mirror some stuff from this site, please mirror only the other directories and get the stuff I have mirrored directly from its source. Email address : If anybody has some info he wants to share with the rest of the world (and me!), or of there are any problems with this site please mail it to : pbm-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl. Uploading : Also I have created an upload directory called Incoming. You can put files here by typing : put <file> /pub/pbm/Incoming/<file> or : cd /pub/pbm/Incoming put <file> I will try to copy files from this area to other readable areas as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I had to make files in this directory unreadable to avoid any legal hassles in case of misuse. For simple announcements it might be better if you post them to rec.games.pbm, but things like game documentation are welcome here. (I still have several megabytes to spare). Squirrel mail server : For those of you who DON'T have ftp access we now have installed the Squirrel mail server. This mail server can be used through mail or interactively, but all requests will be handled through mail. Please report any errors you find. This is the first time we have installed this kind of software. To get the helpfile either : telnet ftp.cp.tn.tudelft.nl 2001 MAIL <your mail address> HELP (for small help file) or SEND HELP (for big help file) or INDEX (for the index) QUIT or mail to pbm-server@cp.tn.tudelft.nl with the following body : BEGIN HELP or SEND HELP or INDEX END Gopher server : Even better: try gopher to gopher.cp.tn.tudelft.nl. This gopher service is still experimental, so the occational glitch may happen. Enjoy! Frits Kuijlman -- Frits Kuijlman frits @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology The Netherlands Up