Gearbox server (batch book)

[Ted Davis]

There is a name change in the works for the server hosting my "DOS Batch
Files: A Personal View" pages. gearbox.maem.umr.edu/batch/ becomes, I
think, gearbox.maem.umr.mst/batch/ - if that doesn't work, use
maem01.srv.mst.edu/batch/

The explanation is that the university, for reasons known only to big wigs
at the campus and system level, decided that "University of Missouri -
Rolla" was not descriptive enough, so now it's "Missouri University of
Science and Technology" and the domain was changed from umr.edu to mst.edu.

Needless to say, the domain name change will make us invisible to most of
our foreign prospective graduate students. It will also make my web pages
invisible to everyone who has bookmarked the gearbox server.

I knew about the change, but was unable until today to find out what the
new system names are to be - it seems that no matter how many times we
ask, IT couldn't seem to understand what we were asking ... or didn't care.

And yes, it is possible to have both domains - Kansas State did when they
became K-State, but someone has decided that we will not do that, and that
the users would be told it's impossible.

Crossposted to both groups. Replies are not expected, but questions will
be responded to.

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T.E.D. (tda...@mst.edu) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla).

[Ted Davis]

The person who told me the new name for gearbox would be
gearbox.maem.mst.edu seems not to have had the authority to do so. IT
being uncooperative, as usual, did, for reasons incomprehensible to me,
did decide to give it a higher level alias name: gearbox.mst.edu. I never
even hoped for that.

I have been trying to locate the people who have links to my batch stuff
and am having trouble doing so, but one thing I discovered, is that some
people have links to /~batch/, which hasn't worked for several years.

The correct URL is <http://gearbox.mst.edu/batch/>

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T.E.D. (tda...@mst.edu)

[Richard Bonner]

*** Hi, Ted.

I will correct this at my website. Feel free to add my e-mail to your
list of contacts. If I had missed this post, the correction would not be
made, but it would for sure had I received an e-mail from you.

Just a suggestion.

Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/