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From: cctarch (Jenifer L. Burke) Subject: FAQ - What is the Coast to Coast software repository? (last revised 960604) What is the Coast to Coast software repository? The Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), is the largest collection of MS-DOS, MS-Windows, and Windows 95 programs on the Internet (over 12,000 files). It is mirrored by more than 65 sites around the world, and accessible by numerous e-mail servers for those without ftp access. What distinguishes Coast to Coast from other sites such as CICA? Coast to Coast has MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Os/2 programs in its collections. All incoming files are scanned for viruses and trojans and reviewed for content and authenticity by professional archivists. Authors receive individual attention in processing and announcing of their uploads, which appear in both the MSDOS-Announce mailing list and comp.archives. Coast to Coast does not accept anonymous uploads. CICA specializes in Windows programs and accepts unrestricted anonymous uploads. Their README file dated Wed Jul 26 17:09:51 1995 states: "The files are *NOT* virus or trojan-checked, and by retrieving software from CICA, you assume full responsibility for their use on your machine(s)." Can authors of ShareWare, FreeWare and Public Domain programs upload their programs to Coast to Coast? Yes. For details send e-mail to uploads with a brief decsription of your program. You will receive the upload information within a few days. How is the Coast to Coast collection accessed by anonymous ftp? The Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), is located on SimTel.Coast.NET, a host that cannot be accessed by anonymous ftp users, however its files are available by anonymous ftp in directories /SimTel/msdos, /SimTel/win3, /SimTel/win95, /SimTel/nt, /SimTel/os2 and /SimTel/vendors on Coast to Coast's primary mirror site FTP.Coast.NET. There are more than 65 sites mirroring SimTel. To receive the latest list of mirrors send e-mail to cctarch and a current list will be sent to you. Is the Coast to Coast collection accessible by e-mail? Coast to Coast files may obtained by e-mail from various ftp-mail servers or through the BITNET/EARN file servers. For details send e-mail to cctarch and the instructions will be sent to you. Are the Coast to Coast collections accessible by WWW? World Wide Web (WWW) users can access Coast to Coast files via these URLs: /SimTel/ ftp://ftp./SimTel/ Are previous Coast to Coast upload announcements accessible by WWW? Yes, courtesy of MIDnet. The URL is http://www.mid.net/MSDOS_A and some of the features of this site are:
I like what Coast to Coast offers. How can I help to support Coast to Coast? Coast to Coast's primary source of support comes from direct sales of CD-ROMs sold by Coast to Coast Telecommuncations, Inc. (CCT). The best way you can help Coast to Coast to expand and improve its services to you is to tell friends and business contacts about our CD-ROMs, and to encourage them to purchase direct from CCT instead of other CD-ROM vendors. Are the Coast to Coast collections available on CD-ROM? CD-ROM copies of the Coast to Coast collections are available from Coast to Coast Telecommunications, Inc., 5850 Dixie Highway Clarkston, MI 48346, U.S.A., telephone or , or FAX . These CD-ROMs are unabridged copies, which is not true of CD-ROMs sold by some other vendors which offer only portions of the collections. For information send e-mail to cdrom. To order send e-mail to order. Is there a mailing list or Usenet newsgroup for upload announcements? MSDOS-Announce is a moderated one-way mailing list which is used by the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), to announce new additions to the MS-DOS collection. Windows-Announce is a moderated one-way mailing list which is used by the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), to announce new additions to the Windows 3, Windows 95, and Windows NT collections. The announcements posted to these mailing lists are also posted to Usenet newsgroup comp.archives. If your host has Usenet News please do not subscribe to MSDOS-Announce or Windows-Announce. To add yourself to the list send e-mail to msdos-announce-request with this command in the body of the message: subscribe. Administrative mail may be sent to lists.maintainer but please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to msdos-announce-request with this command in the body of the message: unsubscribe. Send mail with the word help in the body of the message to get a complete list of commands and their syntax. This server is only for mailing lists and information files. It will not send program files. Please do not include a signature because it may confuse the server. Jenifer L. Burke Manager of The Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm) Internet: cctarch |