Greetings and Welcome to P R O J E C T G A L A C T I C G U I D E This website is the home of the Project Galactic Guide. The directory tree you are in used to be an anonymous ftp site containing article archives and software repository. It used to be called the "mothership". 4.1 Mothership directories --------------------------- The corridors of the Mothership contain many interesting rooms, including: mothership ------------------ This is the place to look for the latest and greatest in articles and other important Project Galactic Guide stuff. Currently, the following article archive files are on-line, each containing up to 25 articles (the current quantity standard): REAL01.NEW "Real" articles (i.e., fact) REAL02.NEW REAL03.NEW REAL04.NEW REAL05.NEW REAL06.NEW REAL07.NEW REAL08.NEW REAL09.NEW REAL10.NEW REAL11.NEW SREAL01.NEW "Semi-real" articles (i.e., muddled reality) SREAL02.NEW SREAL03.NEW SREAL04.NEW UREAL01.NEW "Unreal" articles (i.e., fiction) UREAL02.NEW UREAL03.NEW UREAL04.NEW UREAL05.NEW mothership/Xguide ------------------------- The X Windows Project Galactic Guide article reader system. In this sub-directory are installation files as well as text readme information files. NOTE: This stuff is the source code which needs to be compiled on a unix system which has X, and, most importantly, the Motif widget libraries. mothership/amigaguide ----------------------------- A great addition to PGG lore, this is a scripting system to use the AmigaGuide-based system with PGG articles. Both the binary .lha archives and the ASCII uuencoded versions of the .lha files can be found in here. mothership/amiguide --------------------------- This is where you will find an article-reader system for the Amiga computer systems. Both the .lha archive and the uuencoded version of the .lha file can be found here. mothership/archimedes ----------------------------- If you're an Acorn Archimedes user, this directory is for you. In this directory you will find your article reader system in the ever-popular uuencoded spark file format, ready for transfer. Enjoy! mothership/archives --------------------------- Here's where you'll find all of the article archives in PK-ZIP format. Check out the file 'ARTICLES.ZIP' and you'll be all set! mothership/bbs ---------------------- Information about using PGG articles on-line with your BBS system! Inside you'll find a handy .ZIP file with all the details. mothership/fan ---------------------- Here's where you will find all the general Hitchhiker's Guide fan stuff. Among other goodies are the two Hitchhiker's/Star Trek cross-over scripts, .gif pictures, and more! mothership/fan/index ---------------------------- In here is the complete ASCII index of every topic from all five Hitchhiker's books as well as the Radio Scripts! mothership/fan/dgindex ------------------------------ From the makers of the Hitchhiker's Guide Index comes the complete index to the Dirk Gently series... and you can find it all here! mothership/html ----------------------- A great (but slightly outdated) version of the PGG Article Archives converted into HTML format, complete with index and everything! mothership/ideas ------------------------ Want to write a PGG article, but don't have any ideas? Check out this directory! In here are a wealth of article concepts and thoughts, ready for the picking! mothership/images ------------------------- This directory contains information and illustrations for Project Galactic Guide and the T-Shirt design. Many different ideas and images are stored here. Come and see what we may look like when we're "out in the field!" mothership/images/MacGuide ---------------------------------- Here are screen shots from the new version 1.3 of MacGuide! mothership/information ------------------------------ This directory contains general PGG information files, like the alt.galactic-guide Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file, and info on formatting your own text articles for submission to PGG. mothership/macGuide --------------------------- Here it is, the PGG Guide Reader for Macintosh systems! Yes folks, we finally have one after years of waiting, wondering, and hoping! Come on in and check it out! mothership/pgg2html --------------------------- You want HTML conversion tools? Well, you got it, buddy! This here's a bunch of stuff to convert PGG articles into HTML. mothership/reports -------------------------- Here's the set of all official PGG Reports to-date. Lots of great behind-the-scenes info about Project Galactic Guide! mothership/stguide -------------------------- This contains another cool Project Galactic Guide system, The Atari Guide (TAG!). The files here are 'stgde101.zoo' (the binary archive file containing the programs and documentation) and 'stgde101.zoo.UU' (the ASCII uuencoded version of the file). mothership/theguide --------------------------- The Guide! for DOS is one of the pioneer reader systems of PGG lore. Requirements are an IBM-compatable 286/386/486/Pentium system, and Ega/Vga color and hard drives are recommended but not required. A mouse is supported but is also not required. This sub-directory contains The Guide!-specific files, like the latest program and executable files, the complete archives pre- processed and ready for use (COMPLETE.ZIP), icons for OS/2, and other support and dox files. mothership/tug ---------------------- This is the sub-directory containing The Unix Guide (TUG!), code, dox, and support information. A new alpha release of TUG! (version 2.1.1pl1) is available in the /mothership/tug/alpha subdirectory.