An archive of  public  domain  Apple  II  files  are  kept  in  a
manually-maintained archive on Plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64].

This archive is accessible via anonymous ftp, as well as  with  a
mail server.

ANONYMOUS FTP

Our site accepts FTP logins with the  user  "anonymous"  and  any
password  (network  conventions generally say you should use your
login name, but that is not required).  This machine is also used
for   theoretically  useful  purposes,  such  as  mail,  classes,
research, reading news and playing games.  Thus, we ask that  you
limit  your usage of this to off-peak hours, (for us this is Mid-
night to 8 AM Central time (GMT -6), but we won't get mad if  you
push this a bit earlier in the evening) and weekends.


USING THE MAIL SERVER

For those not fortunate enough to be on the Internet  itself,  we
run the Clarkson server to process mail requests.  This is an ex-
tremely versatile program, that allows various  encoding  formats
(btoa,  uuencode), compression (compress, arc, zoo) and splitting
of large files.  Apple binaries are kept in Shrinkit format,  and
will be encoded with uuencode.  The server has been customized to
send HELP and Index files  at  any  time,  and  all  other  files
between 23:00 and 08:00 local time.  If you submit a request that
contains *any* file that is not a Help or Index file, the  entire
request  is  queued until late night (currently 23:00 local time,
but that may be moved to earlier  hours  of  the  morning  if  it
proves to be a large load on the system).

The addresses for the server are:
     archive-server@plains.nodak.edu
     {umn-cs, ogicse, uunet}!plains!archive-server (UUCP)
     fileserv@plains (Bitnet)

Note to Bitnet people: this server is  not  'logged  on'  to  the
machine,  so  you  cannot  send  it  interactive  messages.   The
'fileserv' alias was added for those of you who do  not  run  the
Croswell mailer, but you must still use something that is detect-
able as mail (such as a NOTE).  Bitnet files will drop  into  our
bit bucket, unprocessed, since there is no real user by either of
these names.

To obtain a list of the files, the INDEX command is used:

     index [ <directory> ]

where <directory> is a directory under our ~ftp/pub login  (empty
for  the main directory).  There are several other directories of
programs for Microcomputers, current volumes  for  comp.sources.*
and some of the Free Software Foundation's products.

The SEND command is used for having files sent to  you,  such  as
in:

     send appleII/ls-l

Use the command:

     help

and you will be enlightened.

The server accepts commands in mixed case, but all directory/file
names are case significant (just like appleII not appleii).

A cautionary note: this server is  somewhat  'probational';  that
is,  if  it  turns  out  to be a serious load on our CPU, mailer,
postmaster, and network links then it will be shut down

Use with moderation.

This    archive    is    maintained     by     Brian     Glaeske,
<glaeske@plains.nodak.edu>,  at  North  Dakota  State University,
Fargo, ND USA (46 52 N / 96 48 W city)