SOL Archives

Rev. 8/9/96 RG

The British-cars file servers and how to get them:

Please make sure you read the page about accessing the Team.Net archives and servers for detailed instructions and directory listings, before you post any files.

The British Cars list doesn't have a single FAQ, but we do have file servers with lots of technical and other information on it, as well as the list digests since 1991.

The file servers are machines where various archives and articles of interest are stored. You may get copies via "anonymous FTP", or from the E-mail file server.

Instructions on How to connect can be found on the Access page.

SOL Archive Contents

Note: Some files contain "ASCII Graphics", which must
be viewed or printed with a fixed font such as courier
(like this paragraph) to appear correctly.

Highlites of what is available (this is not a full index):

• README.SOL
Text version of this file. (Note: capital letters- FTP is case sensitive.
• DECODERS.FAQ
Brief explanation of file compression and some sources of extractor programs.
• company.use
Guidlines for companies on the british-cars list.
• britparts_vendors.ascii
British and other parts suppliers list- Phil Ethier
• survey.9x
1990-94 Surveys of "our cars".
• landrover.ascii
Land-Rovers: Introduction and buyers guide.
• gt6.ascii
Triumph GT6: Introduction and buyers guide.
• lotus.history
Listing of Lotus car models by type number.
• rover_3.5L.V8.text.z
History of Rover 3.5 litre engine
• fluids.cht
List of appropriate fluids to use in British cars. RG
• paint.cod
Misc. Engine & acc. paint codes.
• mg_paint.txt
Paint codes list, 1961-80 MG's
• su-tune.tek
"Tuning Your SU Carbs" by Roger Garnett
• clutch.tek
Clutch Operation -R. Garnett
• sfisher_on_british_cars.text.Z
almost 500K bytes of "the best of" tech advice and quotes from Scott Fisher #1.
• timing.muller
How engine timing works -by Jim Muller
• checklist.ascii.Z
Automotive Buying/maintaince Checklist -Buja/Garnett
• suneedle.exe
"HAYSTACK" is a DOS program & documentation for selecting SU carb needles by Dean Deeds (self-extracting pk-zip file. Transfer in binary, and run "suneedle" on your PC. Haystack files will be created in current directory)
• vtr
Info on how to join the Vintage Triumph Register
• mgb.reg
Info on how to join the North American MGB Register
• peerless.reg
Info on the Peerless & Warwick Register
• rules.91
VTR Auto-x rules.

/sol/Images Pictures Directory-Various pictures of "our cars"

• *.gif
Pictures in GIF image form (Preferred).
• *.jpg
Pictures stored in JPEG image form (2nd preference).
• *.mpg
Movies, in MPEG form.

/sol/Digests -Archives of British-car mail (directory)

British Car Mailing list archives & pictures

• sol
Main British Cars archive
• Alpine
Sunbeam Alpines
• healeys
All Healeys
• mgs
MG
• PreWar
PreWar British Cars
• Tiger
Sunbeam Tigers
• TR8
Triumph TR8
• triumphs
All triumphs
• vtr
Vintage Triumph Register

Notes-

• All files ending in .Z, .zip, .exe, .mpg, .gif, and .jpg need to be transferred in BINARY mode.
• Compressed files need to be extracted to be used.
• More information on compression/decompression, and where to find the programs is available in the file DECODERS.FAQ.

Uploading files to the FTP server:

• Please use common compression programs when possible, or plain ASCII for smaller files.
• Please upload *all* graphic images to the \sol\Images directory, not to just \sol.
• Try to keep file names short & descriptive -using 8.3 format, (xxxxxxxx.yyy) for the benefit of all users.

Archive Access Instructions

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