Re: Bittorrent Mirror - apple.cabi.net

[Mike Maginnis <maginnis@computist-project.net>]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:02:18 -0700, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

>Greg Wildman wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 07:32 +0000, Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
>> 
>>>On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Greg Wildman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 18:31 -0400, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Greg Wildman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I have made available a torrent of the apple.cabi.net mirror I have from
>>>>>>1999.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/apple.cabi.net.torrent
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not getting any signs of life from that torrent.
>>>>
>>>>Sorry, but the tracker I am using is giving me errors while I'm trying
>>>>to seed. I will try another one and repost the torrent.
>>>>
>>>>Sorry for the delay. Remember all the files I am mirroring are available
>>>>via HTTP at http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/
>>>
>>>If you want, you can use mine ( http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/ ) - it does 
>>>require a reg to post torrents but that's it and I don't think it goes 
>>>through any folderol to check anything.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> OK, we are up and running. Torrent URL's are as follows.
>> 
>> 1. ftp.gno.org
>> http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=988706c407a1f93e015c75be9b81a7a50e0044e2
>> 
>> 2. ftp.apple.asimov.net
>> http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=e85a04adae90389be234210c4cb381033c5a7df4
>> 
>> 3. apple2.caltech.edu
>> http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=f88583912871be7f12a21b8aee60c900a057eac9
>> 
>> 4. apple.cabi.net
>> http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=00194cd5f09bf118562cad141b56c95ad5314b17
>> 
>> 5. apple2.archive.umich.edu
>> http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=ba5fc09f67a69643ca9a2acbffc085bf46495ef1
>> 
>> All these torrents are kindly hosted at http://www.dosius.ath.cx:6969/
>> 
>> Next: ground.icaen.uiowa.edu
>
>There appears to be a problem with the 'apple.cabi.net.tar.gz' archive
>(or with WinZip, which I'm using to view the contents).
>
>The total path length is exceeding some limit, causing filenames to be
>truncated and making them non-unique.
>
>For example, in the archived directory:
>
>apple.cabi.net\Languages.Programming\DRIVER.SRC\Stylewriter_Driver_SRC.CODE\stylewriter\scripts
>
>there are two files named 'dir' and three named 'sty', clearly the 
>result of truncation.
>
>There are numerous other examples later in the archive.
>
>-michael
>
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What version of Winzip are you using, Michael?  The archive opened &
extracted fine for me with 10.0.

Mike Maginnis
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