Prospero Documentation
This is documentation of the Prospero system.
Technical papers are also available on Prospero.
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Prospero Protocol
This is a description of version 5 of the Prospero protocol
and of the Reliable Delivery Protocol that we use. It includes lots
of information that was elided in the version 1 protocol
specification. It also has a lot of information in it about how the
system works.
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Prospero Protocol Version 1.0
This is a description of version 1 of the Prospero protocol.
(It's identical to appendices D and E of B.
Clifford Neuman's Ph.D. Dissertation.) It is now obsoleted by
version 5 protocol. However,
we are still making it available since a number of older servers are running
version 1 protocol, and since most of the current ARCHIE clients use the
older Version 1 protocol.
- HTML version no longer supported.:
- Prospero:
/papers/subjects/computers/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v1.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP:
Compressed PostScript
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Prospero User's Manual
This is the Prospero User's manual. It is slightly out of
date, and we'll be revising it shortly.
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Prospero Library Manual
Prospero library manual. Somewhat sketchy and not
comprehensive, but far better than nothing. This is mainly useful for
applications writers. This is slowly being updated.
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