From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 15:20:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA21340 for current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA21246 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA02087 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:17:34 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id AAA17446 for current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:17:22 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Beta.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id AAA14529; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:09:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609242209.AAA14529@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:09:48 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? In-Reply-To: <199609241912.NAA07536@rover.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sep 24, 1996 13:12:24 -0600 References: <199609241439.OAA23528@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> <199609241912.NAA07536@rover.village.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.44.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2490 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Warner Losh: > No wait, Altavista tells me http://www.ludd.se/~kavli/alex.html, but > my network world is busted by sprintlink, so I'm unable to get to that > host. :-(. Alex use FTP as transport level. The version I have is rather old but here is what I get from the README: ------------------------------------------------------------ Alex is a filesystem that lets users access files in FTP sites around the world just like they access local files. The name Alex comes from the ancient Library of Alexandria. Alexandria gathered information from around the world into one easy to access location. Alex does an analogous thing in a very modern way. For more information on Alex check out: /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/doc or /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/www/alex.html There are a number of commands for Alex users. The user mosaic page is /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/user/man-html/alexuser.html and the actual user commands are in /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/user/bin. For a set of symbolic links to interesting places in Alex, check out: /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/links One comment to all users, if you have "." on your path, please have it at the end of your path so you do not run some really nasty "ls" script someplace. The Alex software is sort of shareware. Anyone can set up a server by following the instructions in /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/src/README. To encourage people to set up and maintain servers, I do not ask for a donation from people who do this. However, I could really use some money and it would be nice to get some donations to justify continued hacking and support. If you are an end-user of Alex, please express your satisfaction with a donation: send me what you feel Alex has been worth to you. Thanks, Vincent Cate -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Sep 21 00:18:27 MET DST 1996