README.uploads 

For technical and security reasons, uploading to /incoming is disabled
on minix1.hampshire.edu anix1.bio.umass.edu.  Sorry about that.  I
would like to make this site and its mirrors available as a
distribution site for Minix software, especially experimental
work-in-progress, but for the present direct uploads cannot be
permitted. 

Some mirror sites may allow uploads.  For information on mirror sites
please see http://minix1.hampshire.edu/mirrors.html.  If you upload
somethjing to another site, please let me know -- I don't find out
automatically.

You may send contributions to me by e-mail to awoodhull@hampshire.edu
as uuencoded tar-ed and compressed files.  If you have another way (for
instance, an ftp site where I can download from you) please send me
e-mail to make arrangements.  Also, please contact me in advance before
mailing me any really long files (>200K) by e-mail.

I try to post a short text file explaining each contribution.  If you
send me separately or enclose in the tar file a text file named
<package>.txt or <package>.lsm I will use that.  The .lsm format is
preferred.  If you don't send me something I'll make something up that
may not say exactly what you want.  Note that these files can be
accessed at http://minix1.hampshire.edu/pubcontrib/index.html.  This
page is generated automatically and is updated daily.  It will display
the first two lines of the descriptive text.  A quick look at this page
will show you some good and bad examples of how to take advantage of
this feature.  Please try to emulate the good ones!

The preferred format for an upload is a .tar.Z file.  If you expect
your contribution to be useful to users of 16-bit Minix please use
13-bit compression.  Minix uses 13-bit compression by default, but
Linux and other Unix versions use 16-bit compression.  Although a port
of gzip to Minix is available, please keep in mind that gzip is not
part of the standard Minix distribution, so a .tgz file may not be
useful to all visitors to this site.  If your contribution is a utility
designed to run under MS-DOS or Windows (or to support Minix-under-DOS)
you may send a .zip file.

Original uploads will generally be placed in the /pub/contrib
directory.  Files that are unmodified or slightly modified versions of
standard packages found at other sites will be placed in /pub/packages.

asw (awoodhull@hampshire.edu) 06 Jan 2001