SCHOONSCHIP DISTRIBUTION
Anonymous FTP Guide					    10-October-1991

The Schoonschip free distribution is currently available via anonymous ftp
from the internet site:

   archive.umich.edu

The numerical address is 141.211.164.153, but note that it is better to use
symbolic rather than numeric internet addresses where possible, because the
numeric addresses change more often.  The one above has already changed at
least once!

Here is a quick review of how to use anonymous ftp.  First, you have to be
logged on to an account with access to the internet.  This is true of many
UNIX and VAX systems.  On VAX's under VMS, the ftp program has a UNIX
personality mode, which we advise using (see your system administrator).
Otherwise the commands below may not work.  Even then, we're not sure how
binary file transmission will work with a VAX as an intermediate step.

Here is a sample session to get the Schoonschip executable file for the
NeXT.  Mostly commands entered at the local host are shown, without the
local prompts.

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ftp archive.umich.edu

(remote system asks for id):  anonymous (OR ftp)

(remote system asks for password):  guest (OR ftp OR just_about_anything)

dir (just to see what archives are there)

cd physics/schip

dir (to see what's there)

binary

recv SchipNXT.tar.Z

quit

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The Schoonschip executable binary and documentation text files are all
compressed, and must be transmitted in binary mode.  There are some
uncompressed text files as well, which you can "recv" (and should, because
they provide helpful information) without setting "binary".  In particular,
they briefly describe how to uncompress the files.

Once the compressed files are recv'd via ftp, you still have the problem
of getting them to your home computer.  If that's a Sun or a NeXT, you
may be already there, or maybe can get there via (un-anonymous) ftp.  You
will use UNIX utilities to uncompress the files.

If it's an Amiga or Atari, maybe you'll use Kermit to download in binary
mode over the telephone with a modem (a whole other story).  Once there,
you'll need the public domain lharc program to uncompress the files.

David N. Williams
Physics Department
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120
USA

DWILLIAMS@umiphys.bitnet

David.N.Williams@um.cc.umich.edu