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5. What internet nodes are of interest to literate programmers?

The principal nodes of interest to literate programmers are the Literate Programming Archive (LPA hereafter) and the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network).

The Literate Programming Archive (LPA) is:

  Node:       ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
  Directory:  programming/literate-programming
  Notes:      Fastest response during off-U.S. [yep] business hours.

Participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:

  ftp.dante.de  (Deutschland)         
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node sun.dante.de
       -- e-mail via ftpmail@dante.de
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de>
  ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)               
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk
       -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive
       -- World Wide Web access on www.tex.ac.uk
       -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk>

The site ftp.shsu.edu used to be the American CTAN site. Apparently, that site has fallen into disrepair and should not be considered a primary source for either TeX related or literate programming related material. For the record, the address is:

  ftp.shsu.edu  (Texas, USA)      
       -- anonymous ftp and gopher      /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- NFS mountable from ftp.SHSU.edu:/pub/ftp/tex-archive
       -- e-mail via ftpmail@ftp.SHSU.edu
       -- World Wide Web access on www.SHSU.edu
       -- Administrator: <CTAN-Mgr@SHSU.edu>

A list of CTAN archive sites and their mirrors can be found on:

  ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/CTAN.sites

I presume that the other CTAN sites mirror this file, but have not checked. As of my last check (September 1994), it contains:

  "In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the
  Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) host which is located in the
  closest network proximity to your site."

Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):

  dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan)       /tex-archive
  ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia)            /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.muni.cz (The Czech Republic)      /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands)       /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA)            /pub/text-processing/TeX
  nic.switch.ch (Switzerland)           /mirror/tex

Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):

  ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan)      /CTAN
  ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan)               /pub/tex
  ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au  (Australia)       /tex-archive
  ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA)    /tex-archive
  ftp.germany.eu.net (Deutschland)      /pub/packages/TeX
  ftp.gwdg.de (Deutschland)             /pub/dante
  ftp.jussieu.fr (France)               /pub4/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.loria.fr (France)                 /pub/unix/tex/ctan
  ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland)       /pub4/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de
  ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Deutschland)    /pub/tex
  ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Deutschland)    /tex-archive (/pub/tex)
  ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore)          /pub/zi/TeX
  src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England)            /packages/tex/uk-tex
  sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX
  wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA)   /packages/TeX

Other nodes and directories of interest include:

  Node:       ftp.desy.de [131.169.10.115]
  Directory:  pub/web. Various documents, samples, and the FWEB FAQ.
  Notes:      Has a www server, http://info.desy.de:80/


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