v01INF1: welcome - Welcome to Comp.Sources.Hp48
Chris Spell
Posting-number: Volume 1, Info 1
Archive-name: welcome
Welcome to Comp.Sources.Hp48
This newsgroup is dedicated to source, documents, and binary program
postings for Hewlett Packard's 48SX calculator. Source postings for
the HP 28s are also welcome. With this new group, I hope to deliver
source postings to everyone in a uniform format which can easily be
archived. I also plan to adopt a format for each posting which will
make it easy to extract certain or all parts of the file into its
individual files. It seems that, in the past, each program posting
has at least two parts, one being the document and the other the code.
Sometimes postings include the asc encoded program and then later
someone will post the uuencoded program. What I want to do is include
everything in one posting. That way you will always have everything
possible such that one way or another, you will be able to download
the program.
Guidelines for Submission
Please include the following in all submissions:
A complete one line description of the posting, preferably on the
Subject: line of the posting.
A name for the archive file.
A version number assigned to the program.
If everyone assigns version numbers to programs, it will
make it much easier to maintain the archives. It is
difficult to find and replace old versions of the programs
without version numbers. If you do not provide a version
number, version 1.0 will be assigned to your posting.
Please, on subsequent postings of the same source, increment
the version number.
A document describing the posting.
If your current posting replaces a previous version, please
include a copy of the documentation of the new version or at
least the documentation from the previous version.
The program source or binary if the source is not available.
If you would like to provide both asc and uuencoded
versions, I would appreciate it. However, this is not
necessary. I will provide the one that is not included.
Rejected Submissions:
The only reason an article will be rejected would be that the
program does not load into the 48. I will download and minimally
test each program submitted for posting. If I can't get it to
download and install properly, I will send a message to the
author stating the problem I had.
Submission address:
Questions, comments, etc.:
Note: These guidelines show what I would like to receive. If you are
running short on time, then send what you have. I'll do my best to
fill in everything else. At most, it will only cause a slight delay
in my posting it to the net. As the postings increase, these
guidelines will be refined and I will count more and more on the
incoming postings including the necessary information. I will always
provide either the asc or uuencoded version of the binary if the
author can't provide both. I understand that some people can only
provide one or the other.
Mailing List for comp.sources.hp48
I am maintaining a mailing list for comp.sources.hp48. If you wish to
be added to the mailing list, please send a message to:
Articles posted will be mailed to the mailing list at the same time.
Mailing List for comp.sys.hp48
Unfortunately, there is not a mailing list for this group at this
time. As soon as I can find adequate software to create a news->mail
& mail->news gateway, I will install it and include the people on the
comp.sources.hp48 mailing list.
If anyone knows of a good news-mail gateway package, please let me
know.
If you have any suggestions on how the posting are presented, please
send them to me. It is going to take a little while to get everything
straight, but I think this group will benefit everyone.
Article Format
Each article will have the proper headers for rkive(1) to easily
archive. This should make it easy for anyone who has rkive(1) to
archive the postings. If you need the source for rkive(1), it is
available via the mail server or anonymous ftp at seq.uncwil.edu.
The articles will also have BEGIN and END lines to mark each section
of the file. Here are the BEGIN and END statements used so far:
Document section:
BEGIN_DOC filename
END_DOC
ASC encoded section:
BEGIN_ASC filename
END_DOC
UUencoded section:
BEGIN_UU filename
END_UU
Readme section:
BEGIN_RDME filename
END_RDME
Miscellaneous section:
BEGIN_MISC filename
END_MISC
These headers should make it easy for everyone to locate each section
within the single file. I welcome any suggestions to this scheme or a
better way of doing this. Shar(1) would be good to use, but not
everyone has shar or a machine that shar will run on. I plan to write
a set of utilities to manipulate these files, but the first part won't
be ready until this weekend.
HP48SX Archives
The most complete archives for the HP48SX are located at the
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, seq.uncwil.edu
(128.109.221.20). The archives can be accessed via anonymous ftp and
Wayne's mail server. If anyone needs access to the archives via uucp,
send me a message and we'll set something up. If you have anything to
add to the archives, please mail it to me or ftp it here and place it
in the hp48/Uploads directory. If you have a big package that you
want posted to the net, please feel free to upload it with ftp. Just
make sure you either leave instructions in a file or send me mail
telling me that you wanted it posted. As a rule of thumb, I don't
plan on posting anything that gets uploaded via ftp unless
specifically told to do so.
To get started with the mail server, send the following message to
hp-mail...@seq.uncwil.edu:
send HELP
send INDEX
exit
The subject line content does not matter since it will be ignored. If
you send the message above, you should get three messages back. One
acknowledging your request and each of the other two files. If you do
not receive the acknowledgment back fairly soon, then try again but
specify path using the PATH command:
PATH myad...@x.y.z
Make sure that the PATH command is the first command in the message.
If you continue to have problems with the mail server, then send me a
message and I'll try and get everything straightened out.
Thanks to everyone.
Chris