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Newsgroups: alt.etext From: hart@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Hart) Subject: April Project Gutenberg Newsletter Date: 7 Apr 1994 18:45:00 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <2o1kbc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Lines: 184

**This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April, 1994**

------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. HOT OFF THE PRESS - information new to this edition. 2. THE GUTENBERG PROJECT - a summary for those unfamiliar with the project. 3. APRIL RELEASES - a list of the latest titles available. 4. ETEXT AVAILABILITY - ways of obtaining the etexts. 5. ADDRESSES - contact addresses for Project Gutenberg.

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1. NEW INFORMATION 1.1 Gutenberg '94 1.2 Gutenberg Etexts now available in France 1.3 Introducing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange

1.1 For those who missed Michael Hart's inspiring message about his dream for the future of the project, a _very_ brief summary: Last year fifty new electronic texts were published, bringing the official total to one hundred texts (as they were originally counted, this number is quite conservative.) This year we will publish another hundred texts, as well as assorted other materials, in accordance with the goal to double production each year, producing 10,000 titles by December 31, 2001.

1.2 Project Gutenberg Etexts Now Available in France:

ftp ftp.cnam.fr login anonymous cd pub cd Gutenberg [The "G" is CAPS]

These files updated every Wednesday at 3AM local time [UT +1 or +2] [updated from WU. . .not from mrcnext]

1.3 Introducing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange

The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange is a service on the Internet intended to make it easy for philosophers with Internet access of any kind to exchange working papers in all areas of philosophy, and to comment publicly on each other's work.

The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange provides storage for working papers, abstracts, and comments, and provides a variety of means by which papers and abstracts may be browsed and downloaded.

Use of the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange is free of charge, and open to all. In our first month of operation, each month we receive over thirty working papers, and have filled nearly four thousand requests per month for papers and other documents, from over forteen hundred distinct users in dozens of countries.

The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange is located at Chiba University, Japan, through the generosity of the Department of Philosophy and of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba University. We are pleased to announce that the IPPE is now being mirrored in Illinois by Project Gutenberg.

Paper submissions are accepted from all, on the sole condition that papers must be of interest to contemporary academic philosophers. In addition to original papers, comments on papers already available on the system are encouraged. Please submit papers only to our Chiba site, or through email.

Accessing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange:

By ftp: "ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu", then "cd etext/ippe" By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" By gopher: "gopher apa.oxy.edu" or "gopher kasey.umkc.edu" By email: "mail phil-preprints-Service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" Questions: "mail phil-preprints-Admin@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" To upload a paper or comment: see pub/submissions/README

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2. THE GUTENBERG PROJECT

The Gutenberg Project, founded in 1971 by Michael Hart, who still directs the project, is aimed towards making public-domain documents freely available in electronic form. What this means to you is that there are now many novels, short-stories, reference books, and information texts available over the internet, from your local network, or on disk. (Methods of obtaining the texts are explained in detail in section 4.) At present, over one hundred full texts are available, ranging from Moby Dick, through the Declaration of Independance and the Bible, to the CIA World Fact Book.

These texts were produced through the work of hundreds of volunteers, and aided by many donations. (Yes, you can take that as a hint.)

The texts are all typed in "Plain Vanilla ASCII." This means that they use only those characters which work on all systems, and can be easily read by both humans and machines.

In an effort to make Project Gutenberg Etexts universal, we have ended each line with a "carriage return" AND a "line feed". (Macs require a cr, UNIX needs an lf, DOS machines require both.

Macs users CAN remove these characters [which Macs use for mark at end of paragraph] with UUlite, while UNIX users can used the flip or toix command. [Mac users should be forewarned that the remargination of Etexts can have some very odd results, back-up your file before you try it.]

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3. APRIL RELEASES

The following are the eight Etexts posted by Project Gutenberg on mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu for anonymous ftp in etext/etext94 as below:

Mon Year Title/Author [filename.ext] ##

Apr 1994 The Number "e" ["Natural Log" to 1 million places][ee710xxx.xxx] 127 Apr 1994 The Poison Belt by A. Conan Doyle [Challenger #1] [poisn10x.xxx] 126 Apr 1994 A Girl of the Limberlost/Gene Stratton Porter #2 [limbr10x.xxx] 125 Apr 1994 Deutercanonical Books of the Bible/Apocrypha [apoc10xx.xxx] 124 Apr 1994 At the Earth's Core, by Burroughs [Pellucidar #1] [ecore10x.xxx] 123 Apr 1994 Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy [Hardy #3] [nativ10x.xxx] 122 Apr 1994 Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen [Austen #2] [nabby10x.xxx] 121 Apr 1994 Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson [treas10x.xxx] 120

Please note: neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the the month of this announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month. A preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion, comment and editing by those who wish to do so. To be sure you have an up to date first edition [xxxxx10x.xxx] please check file sizes in the first week of the next month. Since our ftp program has a bug in it that scrambles the date [tried to fix and failed] a look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a new copy has at least one byte more or less.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4. ELECTRONIC TEXT AVAILABILITY 4.1 Obtaining texts via ftp at MRCNEXT 4.2 Alternate ftp sites with Gutenberg and/or other Etexts. 4.3 Retrieving texts by E-MAIL using ALMANAC 4.4 Requesting Etexts on Disk 4.5 From Bulletin Board Services

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ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu OR ftp 128.174.201.12 login anonymous password <your e-mail address> cd etext cd etext91, etext92, etext93 or etext94 ls [this will produce a list of filenames available] get <filename> [where <filename> stands for the text you have selected] quit

4.2 ALTERNATE FTP SITES

Project Gutenberg is now available at etext.archive.umich.edu, along with a large selection of other etexts and also on:

nctuccca.edu.tw [192.83.166.10, 140.111.1.10] cd /documents/electronic-texts/Gutenberg

nptn.org cd /pub/e.texts/gutenberg/etext91, 92, 93, 94

quake.think.com cd /pub/etext91, 92, 93, 94

oak.oakland.edu wuarchive.wustl.edu ftp.cnam.fr

4.3 VIA MAIL

To retrieve a file via E-mail, first send the following message to the server at ALMANAC@OES.ORST.EDU:

send gutenberg catalog

This will give you a list of available files, along with instructions on how to retrieve them.