File:		gatekeeper:~ftp/README.ftp
Original:	16 February 1990 (Paul Vixie) <vixie@wrl.dec.com>
Last Edit:	10 May 1990 (Paul Vixie) <vixie@wrl.dec.com>

This file is addressed to the users of Gatekeeper, not to people logging
in with anonymous FTP looking for goodies.  If you are logging in from
outside of DEC.COM looking for goodies, they are in "pub" and there is a
file called "ls-lR.Z" which has in it what you'd expect from its name.
(There is also a file called "ls-lRt.Z").  gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive is
NO LONGER exported via NFS.  Have fun.

The .Z suffix on a file implies compression with the /usr/ucb/compress
program.  This is part of 4.3BSD, B News, Ultrix, SunOS, and all other
recent versions of UN*X.  Sources are in pub/misc/compress-4.0-tar if
you don't have it and you need it.  We now have a VMS version available;
see the pub/VMS directory and the pub/VMS/README.compress file for details.

To the users of Gatekeeper who read the /etc/motd message and are wondering
what's in this file of interest to them: read on.

Gatekeeper is a cache.  The ~ftp/pub archive is full of nearly every bit
of useful public domain software which has ever been made available on 
the Internet.  This makes two operational suggestions to you, the user
community:

	1. what you want is probably here somewhere.  Use the "fnd" command
	   to scan the archive before you run off and FTP something from
	   halfway around the world -- there is no reason to bring in five
	   copies of the newest version of GNU Emacs at 4MB apiece.  If you
	   want, cd to ~ftp/pub and start poking around.  If you are impatient,
	   try "fnd emacs" or "fnd GNU" or "fnd scheme" or etc.

	2. what you want, if not here already, ought to be.  After you discover
	   that what you wanted wasn't here, and you grab it from somewhere,
	   you should leave a copy in your home directory and send mail to
	   "gatekeepers" asking to have it added to the archive.  This will
	   make it easier for other gatekeeper users (as well as anonymous
	   FTP users from outside of DEC.COM) to find archive goodies.

Suggestions are always welcome at the "gatekeepers" alias.

Thanks and have fun.