Please contribute either your own materials (or pointers to others') to the ASDN archives.

We will gladly accept any pertinent:

• software
• information
• documents
• data
• examples
• educational material
• demos
• etc., etc.

related in any way to Atomic Scale Design and Microelectronics.

For shorter files, you can just send e-mail to Jan K. Labanowski (jkl@osc.edu). At this time, we only offer upload on one machine ftp.asdn.net for security reasons.

For longer files, please use ftp:

   ftp ftp.asdn.net
   Name: anonymous
   Password: your-e-mail-address (you may prepend it with - if
                                 it does not work)
   cd incoming
   binary               (to set binary mode for compressed files)
   mkdir mystuff        (just an example -- use your own name)
   cd mystuff
   put readme.txt
   put myfile1
   put myfile2
   ...so on
   quit

Note, for security reasons, you will be able to create only one subdirectory level and place files there. However, you will not be able to list or retrieve files which you uploaded.

(It is inconvenient, since things seem to go to a black hole, but if we allowed retrieval from our ftp incoming directory, it would soon become a primary site for anonymous distributution of offensive material or bootleg software.) But, besides this inconvenience, the files are being uploaded, and once we have a chance to move them to publicly accessible directories, they will be available for download to everybody.

Please attach some information about items which you contribute e.g., as a "readme.txt" file.

Once you are done, please send a short note to Jan K. Labanowski jkl@osc.edu and your contribution will be placed in ASDN archives in some logical location. (We will let you know where it resides so you can announce to the Microelectronics (and other lists/newsgroups) that your contribution is available.)

If you cannot upload to ftp site, please let us know, and report the reasons and symptoms.

The ftp site with upload capability is usually under constant attack from people whose goal in life is to illegally break into computers. (Sometimes, we have to cleanup tons of garbage after such attacks.) The other option would be to put restrictions on the size of uploads, which we are trying to avoid.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Even if you do not have your own material, you can still greatly enhance the contents of ASDN archives. Please give us pointers to public domain or shareware materials related to computational chemistry which would be a useful addition to our archives.

Change happens so quickly in Cyber space. Consequently, ASDN aims to preserve valuable materials at our stable ASDN site to give permanency to these many useful tools, documents and data. This material is scattered on publicly-accessible -- but often lesser known -- sites all around the world and so is in risk of disappearing when the sites close or the authors move to another institution.

Obviously, we will give full acknowledgement in the archives to the authors of these contributions (if this information is known to us). We hope that the authors by sharing their work with the large and diverse audience of ASDN may in part have their efforts rewarded with beneficial publicity.

Of course, we have to reserve the right not to accept some materials for distribution without providing a reason, but we hope to never have to do use this disclaimer.