[gopher] Re: Gopher bot archive now available

[Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd also be willing to pay for option #2


Chris




On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:10:41 -0500
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Awhile back, I offered to send off the gopher bot archive to anyone
> interested.
> 
> Well, I have finally had the time to assemble the data.
> 
> What I have is four DVDs worth of data.
> 
> The data has been tar'd, bzip2'd, and split'd.  Each image contains two
> files, 1.9GB each.  These simply represent the underlying raw bits of
> the tar ball.  The very list disc is smaller, but I added onto it the
> source to my bot, the video interview with the UMN folks, and a pg_dump
> of my database tables for the bot.
> 
> The archive untars to approximately 30GB worth of data.
> 
> Unix users can copy the split'd files to their hard disk, then just cat
> *.0* | tar -jxvf - 
> 
> You'll of course need quite a bit of free disk space to do that.
> 
> Windows users may have a tough time processing this.  copy /b may be
> able to concatenate the files, but then you'll have to untar and unbzip2
> it all.  Plus, some of these directories contain colons, and may have
> more files per directory than Windows can handle well.
> 
> I am willing to:
> 
> 1) Burn DVDs and send them free of charge to one person in the community
> that will promise to burn and distribute them to everyone else that
> wants copies;
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Burn DVDs and mail them for some fee -- probably $15 or $20 per
> set -- to any address in the US for everyone that wants them.  The fee
> would cover cost of the media, thin jewel cases, packing materials,
> postage, and anything left over could I guess be considered to go
> towards my time assembling it all.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- John
> 
> 
> 


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