Space Station Raven

A Linux Workstation

Majordomo

Raven is an online shareware magazine, available from a number of places. The first place to look is on the same server as where this page is.

The Raven workstation connects via trix, however this is a dial-up connection, which may be off-line, or disconnect mid-session, however it does offer ftp, the latest versions, and other material.

Another place to look is on the dircon ISP host. However, this server is limited to 512 K and does not offer the full text.

An experimental majordomo service is available from trix. This is email-based, and usually has the latest information, but only connects occasionally, so it may take a day (or more!) to reply to your enquiry. To use it you send an email to majordomo@trix.dircon.co.uk, with a blank subject line, and your requests in the body of the text. eg

echo subscribe raven | sendmail majordomo@trix.dircon.co.uk

This would add you to the mailing list, to receive further information as it is broadcast. It also understands other commands such as HELP, which tells you how to use a majordomo service, UNSUBSCRIBE raven, which gets you off the list, INDEX raven, which returns a list of files available, and GET raven FILENAME, which causes it to send you that file. Don't include your .sig as it will generate errors, or use the END command before then.

Please check the versions of files, and don't request ones which you already have, as it is only a phone line, and eats up bandwidth that would be better spent doing something useful and interesting.

If you have any questions, or problems accessing Raven, please feel free to ask gps@trix.dircon.co.uk,

Don't expect a response until tomorrow, or later during the holidays. Also, from time to time, the files change names overnight!


Raven is an Linux X11 workstation.
Raven is a £3 Shareware Magazine.

Graham Swallow, gps@trix.dircon.co.uk (C) Apr 1996