7 Dec
2003
7 Dec
'03
12:26 a.m.
On Dec 6, 16:21, SP wrote:
STD39.txt
What's unreadable about it? It's an ordinary text file, compressed
with gzip. However, it's not STD39 at all. It's not even related to
it; it's RFC903, which is about RARP (Reverse Address Resolution
Protocol). It looks like the people who run that FTP site have not
only not updated it in ten years, they've accidentally copied their
STD38 file as STD39.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
It is on my
list of things to look for.
BBN 1822 describes the host to IMP protocol
I'm hoping there is a copy in the SRI archives at the Computer
History Museum.
Good luck. I only located something remotely similar to one copy,
but in one unreadable format, in:
ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub2/rfc/rfc/std/std39.txt.gz
This file is 3.3k long, instead of the 187 bytes of the official 
7 Dec
7 Dec
12:53 a.m.
Good luck. I
only located something remotely similar to one copy,
but in one unreadable format, in:
ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub2/rfc/rfc/std/std39.txt.gz
This file is 3.3k long, instead of the 187 bytes of the official
STD39.txt
What's unreadable about it? It's an ordinary text file, compressed
with gzip. However, it's not STD39 at all. It's not even related to
it; it's RFC903, which is about RARP (Reverse Address Resolution
Protocol). It looks like the people who run that FTP site have not
only not updated it in ten years, they've accidentally copied their
STD38 file as STD39. 
10:02 a.m.
>>
ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub2/rfc/rfc/std/std39.txt.gz
> What's unreadable about it? It's an ordinary text file, compressed
> with gzip.
Not quite.
FWIW, I also got unreadable cruft when I used WinZip
to extract
std39.txt.
% ftp ftp.univ-angers.fr
...fetch the file...
% file std39.txt.gz
std39.txt.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Mon Aug 11 23:47:54 2003, max
compression, os: Unix
% gunzip < std39.tzt.gz > std39.txt
% file std39.txt
std39.txt: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Mon Aug 11 22:10:03 2003, max
compression, os: Unix
% gunzip < std39.txt > std39.txt.bis
_That_ finally gives a real text file. It's not a text file compressed
with gzip; it's a text file "compressed" _twice_ with gzip. (I use the
quotes because the second gzipping actually enlarges the file.)
And yes, it's RFC903.
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