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

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:12:54 -0500
Message-ID: <CAALmim=GDejhAwAk3R30dEUo=pUHENf7cBTQmsHdZWUr+U6Gvg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> 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

Ah!  Nice catch.  I kinda remember seeing those there once, but I
think the lack of descriptions kept them obscure in my memory.

> So, from the dirctory listing, we are only missing ny.zip.

Cool.  With that simple name, though, that's going to be tough to
search for.  I didn't see anything in the index pages on tripod that
was anywhere close to a match to even have a guess of what might be in
it.

> 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

Right, but there is U123LNX.ZIP but I have't found anything for the "L" series.

> 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.

Yep.  The good stuff is first.

> Or maybe we should just leave it like it is.

It's a bit messy, that's for sure.  Even just an overall searchable
(plaintext) index would be handy.  Reading through the tripod pages
full of readme files is handy, but there's so much of it.

-ethan

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