Sci.virtual-worlds postings README file			Jan. 10, 1993

Past postings to sci.virtual-worlds are stored in directories by year.
Each file in a directory contains all of the postings during a given
month of that year.
Each monthly archive file contains many files, where each filename
represents when the file was posted in the format: 
	year-month-day.number
year, month, and day are two-digit numbers, and number is simply the
order in which this particular posting was put up on this day.

To extract the files from any given archive...
	1.  Be sure and ftp in binary mode.
	2.  Do:  compress -d filename.tar.Z
	3.  Do:  tar -xvf filename.tar
	4.  The files will be extracted from the archive into an
	      appropriately-named directory. 

If you want to get everything from a specific year, you can cd into 
the year directory and do an "mget *".

The utilities "tar" and "compress" are available on all UNIX machines.
They are also available for the Mac-- check out your favorite Mac FTP
site (wuarchive.wustl.edu?) for the proper utilities.

The files for August through November 1990 were a bit munged during
transit to their current resting place, and thus may not be exact
duplicates of the postings from that time period.

All archives now extract into their own directories-- so, you don't
have to worry about munging your current directory up when you extract
from the archive.

If you have any questions regarding the archives, please let me know.

	---Mark A. DeLoura <deloura@cs.unc.edu>
	   Sci.Virtual-Worlds Co-Moderator/Librarian