From: madsax@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark A. DeLoura)
Subject: Sci.Virtual-Worlds archives.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 14:51:01 -0700
Organization: University of Washington


The archive for the previous month is now available for anonymous 
ftp from milton.u.washington.edu (128.95.136.1).

This archive joins the ever-expanding sci.virtual-worlds
archives... we now have all of the postings ever posted to the
newsgroup, and the postings are split up into files by month and by
year. 

Here is the README file from the archives.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> The files for August through November 1990 were a bit munged during
> transit to their current residing 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.

Don't forget that the archives are also now available via the "prospero"
service-- for more information about prospero, send mail to
bcn@cs.washington.edu or ftp to cs.washington.edu and download the 
prospero source code.

	---Mark A. DeLoura <madsax@milton.u.washington.edu>
	   Sci.Virtual-Worlds Co-Moderator/Librarian