PGP Tools question, and soda archives.
Hey all. I've been trying to get the PGP Tools library to work on my system (MSDOS, Turbo C 2.0, 286), and have been having a hell of a time. Aside from the problems getting the makefile to function here (the DOS 127 character command line limit killed the ptd.exe cc line), the demo locks up in fifo_destroy. Looks like there's a missing NULL termiantor. Now, I saw a bug fix on the list a few days (weeks?) ago, and I'm not certain if the file I have has that included (pgptl10c.zip), so I tried to check the cypherpunks archives at soda.berkeley.edu to find the reference. I don't have shell acces here (have to use a menu, can't use elm's filter, no ftp, no telnet, etc), and gopher failed to connect to soda to let me look. When I borrowed a friend's shell account for a few moments to try the ftp, soda shut down when I told it I was anonymous. So, is soda still the archive (have I missed a major announcement?)? Is there a later version of pgptools? Has someone else fixed the MS-DOS support? (I finally just yanked the multiple platform support from my copy, figuring that if my code compiles here with MS-DOS support forced but I haven't changed the library code itself then my code SHOULD compile on a machine where the multiple platform support is functional)? Is there a fix to fifo I need to make or track down? Has soda locked out anonymous ftp permanently? (I also use the White Wolf archives there.) Is there an approved of pool or newsgroup to send messages to Pr0duct Cypher? I hate to add to the cypherpunks traffic with comments directly to him/her. (We NEED to get the return addresses working, or Pr0duct should try the new anonymous address server (from Ghio? I should know, I saw the name 50 times today!)!) Seth Morris (Seth.Morris@launchpad.unc.edu)
So, is soda still the archive (have I missed a major announcement?)?
Yes. Soda had some disk problems, but is back up. And with a big change. The staff have moved the ftp directory to its own filesystem, removed quotas for that filesystem, and set back ownership of the rest of the files to me. Soda has had a real disk crunch, and the staff installed tight disk quotas of 10 Mb. That's hardly anything at all. The staff, in order to spoof the quotas, changed ownership of some of the files and directories to user ftp, after which I couldn't access things or change them. This included the main cypherpunks directory, so I couldn't even add new directory trees. Plus, I've got some overseas people automatically mirroring soda, with a hand done exception for pgp, so it was problematic to add new encryption code. This is still not fixed. I'm drafting some volunteers on soda to help with maintenance, so things should improve there in the coming weeks. Eric
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