Re: Recovering Ken Ross' downloads from archive.org (was Re: Extracting Lynx archives)

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:20:13 +0100
Message-ID: <20171103152013.00001d05@plea.se>
Den Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:25:01 -0400 skrev Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Can you make the extracted collection available?
> 
> Here's the files I could get from archive.org (15% were not found).

I had a go at downloading them myself.

The missing files are:

CBLNX.ZIP
dav07lnx.zip
dav08lnx.zip
dav09lnx.zip
dav10lnx.zip
dav11lnx.zip
games.zip
jimB86.zip
ken03lnx.zip
ken04lnx.zip
ken05lnx.zip
ken06lnx.zip
ken11lnx.zip
ny.zip
timmsdsk.zip

All missing and non-missing files, except ny.zip, has been here all the
time:
ftp://www.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/pet/unsorted/index.html

So, from the dirctory listing, we are only missing ny.zip. It seems
impossible to google for ny.zip, but it might

By some reason the descriptions at
http://petlibrary.tripod.com/index-2.html does only partially match the
disks/filenames in the directory listing. A0-A5, B1-B3 (combined as
B123), C1-CK, E1 seems to fit, but there are for example no zip's
named L0,L3,L4,U1,U2,U3

I'd say that it seems like this started very nice but at the end stuff
were added more or less randomly with the index and the disk filenames
not matching. Also the disks at the end in the index/description
contains stuff that have nothing whatsoever to do with PET/CBM, like
full texts of old books from project Guthenberg, varios FAQ's from the
net e.t.c.

As the listings seem to contain file names for each disk, even the ones
with more cryptic descriptions, it's possible to match all files with
what's on the disks we could download, and narrow down what's missing,
abd check if that's available elsewhere or if it might be worth to ask
PET people to check what's on their disks.

Or maybe we should just leave it like it is.

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