Our request for nld group ftp space came through.  I wrote up a
sort of how-to, appended to this message. It can also be found
in
    /afs/slac/g/nld/docs/group-ftp-space.txt

                                               Joanne

      ------------------------------------------------------------

                                                              jrb
                                                              July 21, 1999

                   How to Use LCD Group ftp Space

We have 50 Mbytes of group ftp space to be used to distribute files
to users outside SLAC.  

Viewing the space from a SLAC unix account
------------------------------------------
It exists in the afs file system as

           /afs/slac.stanford.edu/public/groups/lcd

So far I've made two subdirectories: RootApps and StdHep.  In general,
the organization should look something like

                               lcd
                                |
               -----------------------------------------------------   ...
              |                  |            |             |
             RootApps          StdHep       SomePackage   AnotherPackage

The structure within a package depends on what needs to be distributed.
For RootApps so far I have only a gzip of source, so I made a subdirectory
of RootApps called src which contains the file RootApps-3.0.tar.gz

StdHep contains libraries (in particular, libraries whose objects have
been compiled with PIC, though I also threw in the standard non-PIC
versions) for SunOS and Linux platforms.  The organization for StdHep 
looks like

                                StdHep
                                  |
                                 lib
                                  |
               -----------------------------------------
              |                                        |
            Linux                                    SunOS
              |                                        |
            4.02                                     4.02

with the actual libraries residing in the 4.02 directories for each
platform.

I intend to add some READMEs, probably one at the top level and
one for each package.

Anyone in group nld should be able to write to this space.  (To see
what groups you're in, type 
                      groups
at the shell prompt.)




Access from Outside SLAC
------------------------
Anyone should be able to copy files from this space by either

1.  Using ftp directly to login as anonymous, e.g.

     $ ftp ftp.slac.stanford.edu

       Name (ftp.slac.stanford.edu:jrb): anonymous
       331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
       Password:

     ftp> cd groups/lcd
     250 CWD command successful.
     ftp> ls
     200 PORT command successful.
     150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
     RootApps
     StdHep
     226 Transfer complete.
     18 bytes received in 0.014 seconds (1.23 Kbytes/s)

   and so forth.  Issue get commands to copy files as needed, remembering
   to set binary or ascii mode as appropriate

2. From the web:

   Use the URL

     ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/groups/lcd/

   To actually fetch one of the files from your browser, you may have
   to right-click on it and select "save link as.." in Netscape
   or "copy to folder" in Internet Explorer.

   I'm not sure this will work properly for the StdHep libraries.
   Netscape displays icons indicating it thinks these files are ascii,
   so likely would use the wrong mode to transfer them.