Prospero Documentation

• 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:
    /papers/subjects/computers/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v5.PS.Z
  • Anonymous FTP:
    Compressed PostScript , Compressed LaTex.

• 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.
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  • Prospero:
    /papers/subjects/computers/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v1.PS.Z
  • Anonymous FTP:
    Compressed PostScript

• 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 It is slightly out of date, and we'll be revising it shortly.
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    /papers/subjects/computers/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.PS.Z
  • Anonymous FTP:
    Compressed PostScript, Compressed LaTeX, LaTeX.

• 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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  • Prospero:
    /papers/subjects/computers/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-library.PS.Z
  • Anonymous FTP:
    PostScript, Compressed PostScript, Compressed LaTeX.