[gopher] Re: Gopherspace archive
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:53:42 -0700, Alessandro Selli
<dhatarattha@route-add.net> wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:38:47PM -0500, Benn Newman wrote:
>>> What is the status of the archive of Gopherspace John was creating?
>>
>> I have it, but it's about 40G and I have nowhere to host it.
>
> WOAH! That much?
>
>> It is a flat directory structure, basically host/port/selector
>>
>> I would be happy to tar.bz2 and burn it to DVD-Rs or something and
>> snail mail it to anybody that wants it. In fact, I hope somebody
>> *does* want it. It would be bad if only one person had a copy of
>> this.
>
> Did anyone try 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/)? I read it compresses
> files
> better than Bzip2:
>
> http://www.freedb.org/
> Posted by joerg on Saturday, April 08 @ 20:56:00 UTC (462 reads)
> [...]
> As previously announced, we dropped the rar archives
> and offer 7-zip-archives instead now. We have not
> dropped the .tar.bz2 for the freedb-complete archives,
> yet, but we plan to drop them next month, since they're
> so much bigger compared with .tar.7z. If you really
> need the .tar.bz2 archives instead of .tar.7z, please
> let us know why.
Bring out your RAR, put them in a pile, and set them on fire.
WOOOOOOOOOOoo.
--
Jeff
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