16) What are the archive sites? (Grateful Dead)
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This article is from the Grateful Dead FAQ, by John J. Wood, Eric Nay and Ihor Slabicky tcgdd@hotmail.com with numerous contributions by others.
16) What are the archive sites? (Grateful Dead)
The main anonymous ftp/gopher site is gdead.berkeley.edu
FTP and access to the site is detailed below. gdead.berkeley.edu
also has a gopher server. People with gopher clients can connect
with: gopher gdead.berkeley.edu
Gopher is a distributed document delivery service allowing access
to various types of data residing on multiple hosts by presenting
a hierarchical arrangement of documents using a client-server com-
munications model. Your guess is as good as mine..:)
If you have access to the World-Wide Web (e.g. via Mosaic), there's
a pretty impressive setup done by Mark Leone that incorporates alot
of the stuff from the berkeley site. Just open the following URL
and follow the menus:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/dead.html
A "Deadhead Home Page Index" may be found at:
http://www.shore.net/~aiko/dead_html/index.html
The Official Grateful Dead Home Pages is
http://www.dead.net/
The material contained at the various ftp sites is freely available
to anyone with ftp access, and should not be distributed for
commercial gain without the explicit permission of the authors of
said material, unless otherwise noted.
The gdead site at berkeley has all sorts of goodies, including
ibm/mac/Next stuff, discography, gdhours, setlists, stats,
tape-label programs, tye-dye info, sounds, site-layouts, etc.
There is also some stuff at ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3) in pub/gdeadstuff
Additionally, some guitar tabulations can be found at ftp.nevada.edu
(131.216.1.11) in pub/guitar/Grateful_Dead and at cs.uwp.edu
(131.210.1.4) in pub/music/guitar/g.
All of these ftp sites accept anonymous as the user name, as
detailed below with relation to gdead:
For those who don't know, gdead.berkeley.edu is an anonymous
ftp site for Dead-related stuff. Just "ftp gdead.berkeley.edu"
and use "anonymous" as a user name. Help is avalible with the
"help" command.
no ftp access: email ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, help as message body.
There are a few things you should know if you have never anonymous
ftp(ed) before. First, in order for you to access the ftp site
you must be on the internet; I assume you are. Second, your site
must be using the name server (which comes with the internet feed).
Third, you must be familiar with anonymous ftp procedures. I'll
address each of these concerns.
Note: This session was done ftp'ing the old archive site. I've kept
it in and changed the appropriate addresses because it's an example of
a FTP session done with UNIX-based equipment. I additionally added
a session I had with the new site from a VAX below.
Assuming you are on the internet you should not have any problems
getting through to gdead.berkeley.edu. I am not sure of the
situation of people with pc-modem packages, that is to say I don't
know where they get the dead_flames feed from or how they do connect
into the internet (so I can't really help these people.) However
being on a ...com (or .edu) address you should be "dialed in dude" :)
Anyway if your site is not running the name server you will have to
give the literal IP address for gdead.berkeley.edu. A name
server is a bit of software that automagically looks up the IP
address associated with the name of the computer you are trying to
send mail to, or connect to. The other thing to keep in mind is the
type of equipment both sites are using. Ideally both computers will
be UNIX machines. ftp is a UNIX thing, and who knows what to do if you
aren't on a UNIX box. [It all works about the same on VAX/VMS, though
you may have to type in >user< to get the Name prompt:] The following
insert is a typical file transfer protcol (ftp) session with
gdead.berkeley.edu where one connects and sends a file back to
one's own machine. Note everything inside the >< is what one types
in response to the prompts. Don't actually type in the >< when
you use this as an example.
Anything inside the () are comments to help you understand.
Hope this helps. Also I'm assuming most people reading this far are
complete novices at this, so this is why I'm explaining in such detail.
(session begins.)
(If this does not work you will have to try the IP address number for the machine.)
(try typing >ftp 128.32.45.201<)
Connected to gdead.berkeley.EDU.
220 gdead FTP server ready. Complaints and questions should be sent to <kraitch @ eecs.Berkeley.EDU>.
Name (gdead.berkeley.edu:jgarcia): >anonymous<
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password: >(type in your login name here e.g. mpg Your typing will not appear on screen)<
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> >ls<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
bin
etc
init
lost+found
pub
shlib
226 Transfer complete.
47 bytes received in 8e-06 seconds (5.7e+03 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >cd pub<
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> >cd gdead<
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> >ls<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
ps
stakodead
tape-lists
tape-lists-drop-box
226 Transfer complete.
48 bytes received in 5e-06 seconds (9.4e+03 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >cd ps<
(you can cd to any of the four directories listed above.)
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> >ls<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
AirJerry.ps
Jerry-Magic-full-page.ps
Jerry-Magic-quarter-page.ps
Jerry-Magic-sixteenth-page.ps
Jerry-and-Bob-characature.ps
Young-Jerry-full-page.ps
Young-Jerry-tenth-page.ps
club.ps
misc-dead-graphic.ps
nethead.90.ps
226 Transfer complete.
228 bytes received in 1.1e-05 seconds (2e+04 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >binary<
(binary transfer mode should be used for sending files.)
200 Type set to I.
ftp> >get misc-dead-graphic.ps<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for misc-dead-graphic.ps (53540 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: misc-dead-graphic.ps remote: misc-dead-graphic.ps
53540 bytes received in 22 seconds (2.4 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >quit<
221 Goodbye.
(end session)
To submit something for installation on gdead.berkeley.edu:
1. cd /pub/gdead/drop-box
2. put "file-name" (where "file-name" is the name of the file on your
system containing what you want to submit)
Thanx to Richard Langston for keepin' the archives for awhile and, I believe,
creating this sample session.
Well, that's the way it was, and it should all pretty much work the
same way at gdead.berkeley.edu
I've left that all in because it's an example of a UNIX-based machine
talking to the site. Here's a session I had with the berkeley site using
a VAX, all the conventions are the same, xcept stuff inside [] is stuff you
should type without the [] and then hit a carriage return, anything inside
() are notes...and i used dir instead of ls to get the listing of
files/directories...they are usu. interchangeable..
Additionally, it's been mentioned to me that when FTP'ing from some VAXen,
it's necessary to put double quotes around the commands you give to the
ftp site. So if the below doesn't work for ya, try that, for example
["dir"] instead of [dir]
[ftp gdead.berkeley.edu] xxx.xxx.xxx Multinet FTP user process 3.1 3.1(105) Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections) <nemesis.Berkeley.EDU FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[user] (type in user to get the username prompt) Foreign username: [anonymous] <Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: [bs810] (type in your userid, it wont show up on screen) <Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[dir] <ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (IP number,port) (0 bytes). total 4 d--------- 5 0 daemon 512 Nov 2 11:10 ...old d--x--x--x 2 0 wheel 512 Jun 12 1989 bin d--x--x--x 2 0 wheel 512 Jun 12 1989 etc d--x--x--x 5 ftp wheel 512 Nov 2 11:10 pub <ASCII Transfer complete. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[cd pub] <CWD command successful. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[dir] <ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (IP number,port) (0 bytes). total 3 drwxr-xr-x 19 0 daemon 512 Oct 28 08:51 gdead drwx-wx-wx 2 ftp daemon 512 Nov 2 11:10 incoming dr-xr-xr-x 2 ftp daemon 512 Nov 2 11:31 sun4_cad <ASCII Transfer complete. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[cd gdead] <CWD command successful. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[dir] <ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (IP number,port) (0 bytes). total 18 (blah blah blah blah) (dates) .NextTrash (blah blah blah blah) (dates) README (blah blah blah blah) (dates) dead-hours (blah blah blah blah) (dates) drop-box (blah blah blah blah) (dates) ibm (blah blah blah blah) (dates) interviews (blah blah blah blah) (dates) lyrics (blah blah blah blah) (dates) mac (blah blah blah blah) (dates) miscellaneous (blah blah blah blah) (dates) music (blah blah blah blah) (dates) set-lists (blah blah blah blah) (dates) site-layouts (blah blah blah blah) (dates) sounds (blah blah blah blah) (dates) stats (blah blah blah blah) (dates) tape-labels (blah blah blah blah) (dates) tape-lists (blah blah blah blah) (dates) tape-trees <ASCII Transfer complete. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[get README] To local file: [readme.txt] <ASCII data connection for README (IP #,port) (63 bytes). <ASCII Transfer complete. NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[quit] <Goodbye. (session ends)
Additional notes: it would've been alot easier to type all this in if I'd
of used ls instead of dir to see what's there..same diff, and you should type
binary at the NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU> prompt before downloading most if not
all files...hope this helps...email me if i've messed anything up here, and
the README file says:
Questions and comments may be directed to: kraitch @ eecs.Berkeley.EDU
P.S. typing cd.. at the prompt will get you back up a directory level.
Also, incoming submissions to gdead.Berkeley.EDU may be left in
/pub/incoming or /pub/gdead/drop-box
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