Welcome to FTP.FUNET.FI aka FINFILES.BITNET Internally also: NIC.FUNET.FI Facts about nic.funet.fi ------------------------ Nic.funet.fi is Sun SPARCserver 630 equipped with 40 MHz SPARC CPU/FPU units. The performance is 50.9 SPECthruputs. The system has 128 MBytes of memory. The total disk capazity is 18 gigabytes. The disk capazity dedicated to FTP archive is 13.8 gigabytes. As far as we know this the largest Anonymous FTP archive in the Internet. The machine is owned by the Finnish Academic and Research Network Project FUNET, and is located at the Finnish State Computing Centre, near Helsinki, Finland. /pub/minix subdirectory ----------------------- The /pub/minix area is under total reconstruction. Earlier almost all files were in same /pub/minix directory. Now they have been or are going to be moved to subdirectories so the main directory should be cleaner. All old files have been moved to unsorted directory before moving their final placement. If you don't find a specific file it is worth of check that directory too. Most directories should have 00Index file which contains descriptions of files in that directory. My purpose is to make file 00Index to all directories and 00Index.all (containing all 00Index files) to the main directory. But first old files must be sorted and it takes time (more than I could imagine when I started this job). Most of the files are tar'ed and compress'ed with 13 bits so they are ready for downloading to your Minix. Some large postings (eg. upgrade kits) are stored as they were posted to the net. Remember use binary transfer!! If you don't have working compress there is source for compress in file compress.c. Currently more and more files are compressed with GNU Zip. File suffix .gz means such file. You find source for gzip in directory /pub/gnu, look for file gzip*. Put your uploadings to incoming directory AND send email to minix-adm@ftp.funet.fi descripting purpose of your uploaded files and their copyright status. If you don't send email we can't use your files and are forced to remove them. Please be patient. This archive is maintained by voluntaries who have their studies and jobs to do. If you have any suggestion, ideas, complaints or you notice that something is missing send email to minix-adm@ftp.funet.fi. Current moderators email adresses Petri Virkkula Jari Ahola (now and then) minix-adm@nic.funet.fi is preferred email address to use