10 Mar
2007
10 Mar
'07
4:36 p.m.
In article <45F33D95.4000707 at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
Yeah, but I think of the things I used to easily find with archie and
now I can't find them at all with google even with targetted searches
for specific filenames. I can ftp to simtel.net and find it if I know
its there, but I don't know the names of other FTP archives. Google
code search is interesting, but doesn't find things I know exist
either.
Any specific software suggestions? Ideally it would be something that
runs on Windows and uses "background net traffic" to perform the
mirroring onto a local HD for archiving to DVD-R.
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Has anyone
else noticed that ftp search services like archie seem to
have disappeared
The web as subsumed all of this, in an inferior fashion, IMHO. Should we be
working to archive large FTP software repositories?
Absolutely! And try to find old backups that you have.
Make sure to use something that can preserve file dates of the files.
The old recursive ftp programs didn't do this.