Re: Archive of comp.binaries.apple2

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

The current status of the archive of cba2 is:

The files I got were in the form of monthly archives starting from
early 1992 through December 2001.

They are 53K BinSCII segments.

Each month is tar.gzipped.

Several of the archives terminate early on the extraction.

Up through 28-June 1994, the files are sequentially numbered, what I
have starts at 231 and ends at 3594. A quick tally of that range gives
me 2520 files of which approximately 75 are some SHK files already
converted and 20 folders.  So thats about 1/3rd missing of that range.


After 28-June the naming conventions change to YYYYMMDD-xx, still
tarballed by the month.

These account for 4278 files, again 53K BinSCII segments.

I have a list of the subjects of the posts, that accounts for 7632
posts over the period spanning the archives.

I also have CDs that have the wustle and other archives from the era
on them.

My plan is to post the contents of this in the same year/month
breakdown, and a file that contains the listings of the files by file
#/date posted and by file name. I will try to post two sets of these,
one that represents only what is actually made available and one
complete, or I'll have the file with a column in it that says it
exists or not.

The sanity of the archives is not going to be checked at first,
otherwise it will never get posted. A sampling of data shows that if I
have the file converted from BinSCII that it's got a very good chance
of being complete.

The issues run into where the chronological order of the files has
gaps in it, so far if all BinSCII segments are there, the samplings
have shown proper extraction.

I need to do some more voodoo with Excel to line up these two lists,
then it would be a bit easier to see at a glance what is missing. It
takes grep voodoo.. that I'm not as proficient at, to get that to
happen at the blink of an eye, so I have to do it the manual way.