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From: wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce
Subject: Monthly Reminder: comp.os.386bsd news archive via ftp
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Date: 4 Jan 1994 03:36:38 -0800
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Summary: Where to get old comp.os.386bsd news
Keywords: comp.os.386bsd, news, archive, ftp, telnet, minnie

This is a reminder that the Usenet news from comp.os.386bsd.* and
comp.unix.bsd (aka `bsdnews') is available from minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
[131.236.20.70], via both anonymous ftp and an archie-like interface.

Ftp
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The Usenet news archive is available on minnie in the directory bsdnews.
Also, the directory 386bsd contains the virgin 386bsd-0.1 bindist, plus the
patchkits to bring 386bsd-0.1 to unofficial patchkit level 0.2.4

The bsdnews archive is kept as a set of gzip files, each containing 100 news
articles. For example, 3400.tar.z contains articles 3400 to 3499. The archive
is kept in directories containing groups of 10 gzip files. For example, the
directory 06000 holds files 6000.tar.z to 6900.tar.z.

The `subjects' directory holds the files with the subject line. For example,
03000subject holds the subject lines for files 3000 to 3999. These files are
ordered by subject, not by article number.

The file `dates' gives you a rough chronology of the files archived on minnie.

[ and here is the file `dates' ]


   Date	      Minnie File		    Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15 Jun 92	 ----		386bsd-0.1 released
18 Jun 92	 1600
17 Jul 92	 2000
 3 Aug 92	 3000
21 Aug 92	 4000
14 Sep 92	 5000
21 Sep 92	 5343		Unofficial Patchkit 0.1 released
 3 Oct 92	 6000
24 Oct 92	 7000
23 Nov 92	 8000
18 Dec 92	 9000
17 Jan 93	10000
25 Jan 93	10349		Unofficial Patchkit 0.2 released
11 Feb 93	11000
13 Feb 93	11062		Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.1 released
15 Jun 93	11187		XFree86 1.2 released
27 Feb 93	12000
18 Mar 93	13000
21 Mar 93	13119		Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.2 released
 4 Apr 93	14000
20 Apr 93	14760		Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.3 released
23 Apr 93	15000
 6 May 93	15735		NetBSD 0.8 released
13 May 93	16000
11 Jun 93	17000
16 Jun 93	17237		XFree86 1.3 released
22 Jun 93	17403		Unofficial Patchkit 0.2.4 released
 6 Jul 93	18000
29 Jul 93	19000
23 Aug 93	19924		NetBSD 0.9 released
25 Aug 93	20000
 2 Sep 93	20335		FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA released
19 Sep 93	21000
 7 Oct 93	22000
29 Oct 93	23000
31 Oct 93	23092		XFree86 2.0 released
 1 Nov 93	23150		FreeBSD 1.0 RELEASE released
15 Nov 93	24000
14 Dec 93	25000


Bsdnews
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Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the news on 386BSD, taken from the
Usenet newsgroups comp.os.386bsd.* and comp.unix.bsd. This archive can be
accessed either via telnet or email. 

You can do two things:

	+ search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern
	+ retrieve particular articles

To do this by email, you send email to bsdnews@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, with
your commands in the body of the email. The commands are:

	help		       - get help about the service
	grep <egrep pattern>   - look for this pattern in the subject lines
	read <article>	       - retrieve the specific article
	quit		       - lines after this command will be ignored

You can send multiple commands in an email to minnie. Your return email
will have your command lines and the results of each command line.

You can also access the 386BSD news archive on minnie with telnet. Simply
telnet to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and login as `bsdnews'. The commands to use
the service are the same as for the email service. You can set/unset both
TERM and PAGER, if you want to get a page at a time. Use the help command to
get more help on the service.

*** Note ***

The telnet version of bsdnews now has a case-insensitive grep/prog function.
Simply do grep -i word to do a case-insensitive search.

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	Warren Toomey wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au
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