4.1258 Rs: E-texts via FTP (2/92)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 22 Apr 91 00:41:19 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1258. Monday, 22 Apr 1991.
(1) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 07:32:51 EDT (55 lines)
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: List of E-texts via anonymous FTP
(2) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 09:28:06 EDT (37 lines)
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: More about E-Texts at anonymously accessible FTP sites
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 07:32:51 EDT
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: List of E-texts via anonymous FTP
Date: 17 Apr 1991
From: HANS ROLLMANN hans@kean.ucs.mun.cs/hrollman@munucs.ucs.mun.ca
It seems to me that presently only Lewis Carroll's works (Alice in
Wonderland, Looking Glass, Snark) are available free world-wide.
There is also a CIA-compiled World Fact Handbook (an Almanac) of ca.
1.9 megabyte for the taking. Project Gutenberg envisions but
doesn't have made available yet a variety of other texts. This info
comes from a moderately active FTP prowler, who has looked into the
E-TEXT directories from Simtel to Germany, to Japan.
The most common sites are (according to Project Gutenberg):
mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or (128.174.201.12 ) cd /etext
(Please do NOT use the mrcnext between 10AM and 6PM weekdays)
(Located in Urbana, IL)
simtel20.army.mil
simtel20.army.mil or (26.2.0.74) pd:<books>
Also known as WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
(This computer has great archives and is used a lot, takes time)
(Detailed
instructions below)
The MSDOS portions of simtel are echoed on:
wuarchive.wustl.edu
Name: wuarchive.wustl.edu
Address: 128.252.135.4
(Please report your efforts on wuarchive, we need a guru for it)
(wuarchive
also echoed on mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu)
(Located in St. Louis area)
wuarchive.wustl.edu
deneva.sdd.trw.com
wuarchive.wustl.edu
deneva.sdd.trw.com or (129.193.73.1) cd pub/etext and cd
pub/etext/compressed for compresses versions.
(Our thanks to TRW)
(Located in Los Angeles area)
quake.think.com
quake.think.com (NEW LISTING!)
192.31.181.1
cd pub
cd etext
(Our thanks to Thinking Machines Inc)
(Located in Boston area)
Hope this helps. Hans Rollmann.
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 09:28:06 EDT
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: RE: 4.1247 Qs: PCs & SW for Handicapped; GeoNet; ... (5/99)
Date: 17 Apr 1991
Subject: More about E-Texts at anonymously accessible FTP sites
From: HANS ROLLMANN hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca//hrollman@munucs.ucs.mun.ca
As follow-up to my previous comments on E-Texts at anonymous FTP
sites, let me say that also the entire text of the King James Version
of the Bible is readily available in ASC format.
As to future text releases of Project Gutenberg, Michael S. Hart
(hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu), the project's director, can say mor about that,
but here is a list of texts recently circulated by him. He invited
proof-reading and the researching of copyrights for those texts or
authors:
T.S. Eliot
Shakespeare
Hiawatha
Paradise Lost
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Comedy of Errors (odd edition)
Roget's Thesaurus
Sir Walter Scott
Poems
The Antiquary
Edward III anon
Castle Dangerous
M. Thomas John Fletcher
Another body of material I've come across were not texts but a
database of many files, each with with a short biography and
bibliography of the major Science Fiction authors.
HANS ROLLMANN.