READ AT YOUR OWN RISK 2011 October 1/10:32 PM This document dates from the early web period, and is kept for archival purposes only. It is no longer updated, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CEREBUS USES THE FOLLOWING SOFTWARE: FTPd, by Peter N. Lewis (ftp, web, and gopher) FingerToyz, by Wayne Walrath (finger) MacHTTPD, by Chuck Shotton (web) FireShare, by Jerry Stratton (e-mail services) MailShare, by Glenn Anderson Cerebus is deeply impressed with Peter N. Lewis. FTP While FTPing to Cerebus, you can do some things that aren't quite normal. (You can do abnormal things without FTPing to Cerebus, but Cerebus doesn't want to know about them.) SPECIFYING FILENAMES: Unlike Unix, Cerebus is not case sensitive. Cerebus does not care about upper and lower case. Gold, gold, and GOLD are all the same to Cerebus. Cerebus recognizes asterisks and question marks as wildcards. Therefore, you can use * and ? in GETs and in CDs. Cerebus would like to point out that your computer is probably not so smart, and will brainlessly use those asterisks and questions as part of the filename. That is not Cerebus' problem. Asterisks and questions marks work normally for mget. Cerebus recognizes that some people do not like binary files. If you add '.hqx' to the end of a legitimate filename, Cerebus will binhex the file for you before transferring it. get what*here : Get the file 'What We Got Here'. It will probably be called 'what*here' on your side. get "What We Got Here.hqx" : Binhex the file 'What We Got Here' before transferring it. cd Proh* : Move into the 'Prohibition' directory. ls Prohibition/Drug?Info* : List the files in the directory 'Prohibition/Drug Information'. SEARCHING CEREBUS You can get an index of all filenames that have a certain word in their name. Use quote site i word or phrase : To find all filenames with 'word or phrase' in them. For example, quote site i cartoon guide : To find filenames with 'cartoon guide' in the filename. MACINTOSH USERS If you are transferring directly to a Macintosh and your FTP client understands Macbinary, you might want to transfer using Macbinary. Macbinary maintains icons and other Finder information. Use quote macb e : To enable Macbinary, and quote macb d : To disable Macbinary. Likewise, if for some reason you prefer to see filenames with .hqx on the end of them, you can use quote site h e : To enable .hqx, and quote site h d : To disable .hqx. This is mostly cosmetic. If you ask for the filename without specifing '.hqx', the file will not be binhexed. If you ask for it with '.hqx', it will be binhexed. You can use the following suffixes to force various transfers: get filename.data : Get the data fork, as ascii or binary. get filename.rsrc : Get the resource fork, binary only. get filename.info : Get the info fork, binary only. get filename.bin : Force a Macbinary transfer. get filename.hqx : Force a binhex transfer. If you are one of those perverts who is familiar with the Macintosh file system, you can enable use of ':' instead of '/' as a separator in filepaths, with the command quote site m e : To enable Mac-like paths, and quote site m d : To disable Mac-like paths. DOS USERS If you want to see standard DOS-like filenames, use the command quote site s : To switch to short, DOS, names, and quote site l : To switch to long, normal names. Short names are ugly, but Cerebus does not care. Cerebus does not believe in the existence of DOS anyway. I heard that. Which one of you said *Cerebus* is short and ugly? SUBMISSIONS If you have something to give Cerebus (Cerebus prefers Gold), you can put it in the "/Incoming" directory. Remember to set the file type to 'binary' if you are sending binary files, and to keep the file type to 'ascii' if it is a text file. Do this by typing 'binary' or 'ascii' before making the transfer. The command for putting files on Cerebus is "put". You cannot see what you upload. Don't worry, unless you actually got an error message, it probably made it okay. binary put gold.doc ascii put gold.txt Remember that even though Cerebus does not care about upper or lower case, your computer might. NAGEE submissions must go into the NAGEE Submissions directory. Tony Moller keeps an eye out there for new submissions. Which, incidentally, have been pretty rare lately. GOPHER SITE INDEX In the top level of Cerebus the Gopher there is an option called 'Site Index '. This allows you to look for gopher items based on words or phrases in their name. It is similar, if not identical to, the 'Index' option found in the FTP side of Cerebus. WEB WEB and FTP If you want to look at some of the scripts and html documents used by Cerebus, you might find it easier to 'ftp' to cerebus. Besides /pub, you can also get to /html. URLS You might be able to use the following URLs to get here via the Web: http://nspace.cts.com/ http://nspace.cts.com/html/cerebus.html http://nspace.cts.com/html/comics.html http://nspace.cts.com/html/acadcomp.html gopher://nspace.cts.com:70/1/1ftp:pub: gopher://nspace.cts.com/11ftp%3apub%3a FINGER You can grab files by 'finger'ing Cerebus. For example, *this* file is in "ftp:Instructions/Cerebus". So you can finger "ftp:instructions/cerebus"@nspace.cts.com You can get an index of filenames by sending a finger to "search" at Cerebus. For example, to find all the files with 'superman' in the name, use finger search:[s--er--n] at [nspace.cts.com] (Actually, the above two parts ain't supported yet. But the below part is. You can finger the following addresses: [h--p] at [nspace.cts.com] [i--o] at [nspace.cts.com] [making comics] at [nspace.cts.com] [dead dates] at [nspace.cts.com] E-MAIL You can send electronic mail to Cerebus; he might even deign a reply. You can send messages to: [h--p] at [nspace.cts.com]: Short intro to Cerebus. [i--o] at [nspace.cts.com]: This file. [s--s--s] at [nspace.cts.com]: A submission for Cerebus. [c--me--s] at [nspace.cts.com]: Comments or kibitzing about Cerebus. [dead dates] at [nspace.cts.com]: The latest "Rumoured & Confirmed" list. [making comics] at [nspace.cts.com]: The latest "Making Comics on the Net". [s--lv--r] at [nspace.cts.com]: Silver Cianide and the NAGEE. [f t p] at [nspace.cts.com]: FTP Via E-mail. [w--b] at [nspace.cts.com]: HTML Documents Via E-mail HELP You can get the simple, small help file by e-mailing a message to "[h--p] at [nspace.cts.com]". You can get this help file (like, why would you want it? You're reading it. And Cerebus did not say "like") by sending a message to "[i--o] at [nspace.cts.com]". You can leave the subject and message blank. Cerebus will ignore it even if you don't. Cerebus will especially ignore it if it goes on and on about your latest romantic break-up. SUBMISSIONS If you have a text submission for Cerebus, e-mail it to "[s--s--s] at [nspace.cts.com]". Put the directory where it belongs in your subject line. That don't guarantee that it *will* appear there. Or that I'll even get to *putting* it there by the end of this century... COMMENTS If you have some comments about Cerebus, you can e-mail them to "[c--me--s] at [nspace.cts.com]". Cerebus will, of course, ignore them. Cerebus is a lot smarter than *you* are. You're running a Pentium. FTP and WEB If you don't have access to ftp, you can still get text files from Cerebus. Send your message to "[f t p] at [nspace.cts.com]". Your message can include the following commands: ls : get a list of all items in the current folder. ls folder : get a list of all items in the specified folder. cd folder : change the current folder. Use ".." to move up one. get file : get a file. It will be e-mailed to you. Get only works for text files, and it will not break up large files. If you ask for a 900k file, you will get it in one chunk. Send to [w--b] at [nspace.cts.com] for html documents.