Please send a short informative message to Odd de Presno after the fact, or write to ask for help.
Note: If your offering is a for-pay service, you must have my written permission. We must also agree on the financial side of such an action.
This document tells you how to
To become an authorized mirror site you must agree to these simple requirements:
- Mirror sites are expected to carry whatever appears under the top-level http://home.eunet.no/~presno/ directory, except the contents of the http://home.eunet.no/~presno/datatid/ directory. They use relative URLs to make them portable. All information files must be included, and these files must not be compressed unless they already exist in compressed form. No additional files or directories may be added without the express permission of Odd de Presno. - Access must be free except for normal connect charges, if any. The mirror site shall be accessible by all Internet users, although limits on the number of simultaneous connections may be imposed to control network bandwidth usage. - You must affirm that you have read and understand the copyright notice found in the file http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/f.html. - Republication of the material in any form is not permitted without the express permission of Odd de Presno.Authorized mirror sites are also permitted to mirror the files in the http://home.eunet.no/~presno/datatid/ directory.
Mirroring can start upon completion of a mirror site agreement.
http://home.eunet.no/~presno/ - around 600 KB http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/ - around 1.1 MB http://home.eunet.no/~presno/datatid/ - around 2.9 MB http://home.eunet.no/~presno/sw/ - around 0.3 MBAll hyperlinks use relative paths.
The handbook site is mirrored to hosts in countries like Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungrary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, or the United States. The server in the United States mirrors the site every four hours. URL: http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/presno/. You may want to mirror to this site for speed.
The archives of the TOW mailing list, where new versions are being announced, are at http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/tow.html. Here, you can search and browse past announcements.
Whatever you do, please send me a short informative note telling about it.
You can browse and search previous announcements at http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/tow.html
The preferred method of mirroring is as follows:
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:08:52 -0500 (EST)
From: w8sdz@Simtel.Net (Keith Petersen)
Subject: Mirror software
Mirror is a package written in Perl that uses the ftp protocol to
duplicate a directory hierarchy between the machine it is run on and a
remote host. It avoids copying files unnecessarily by comparing the
file time stamps and sizes before transferring. Amongst other things
can optionally compress, gzip, and split files.
It was written for use by archive maintainers but can be used by
anyone wanting to transfer a lot of files over ftp.
The latest version of mirror is available from:
http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/mirror/
ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/networking/mirror
ftp.th-darmstadt.de (130.83.55.75)
directory: pub/networking/mirror
ftp.sun.ac.za (146.232.212.21)
directory: pub/unix/packages/mirror
Mirror is part of a family of related programs. The others are ftpmail
and ftpcat. Ftpmail is a mail responder and ftpcat cats a remote file.
These are to be found in
http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ftpmail/ , and
http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ftpcat/.
If you are interested in developing mirror (not just getting the
latest releases but actually doing work) there is a mailing list
mirror-people@doc.ic.ac.uk. Subscribe by emailing to
mirror-people-request@doc.ic.ac.uk. But please do NOT do this unless
you have the time to work on mirror.
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:57:12 -0500 (EST)
From: w8sdz@Simtel.Net (Keith Petersen)
Subject: Re: tow@login.eunet.no
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package=presno
site=login.eunet.no
remote_dir=./
local_dir=/home/www/htdocs/simtel.net/presno
dir_mode=0755
file_mode=0644
remote_user=tow
remote_password=txt15bok
mail_to=you@your.host
compress_patt=
exclude_patt=.links|FSP|core$|.cache|.zipped|lost+found/|new/|sw/
local_ignore=ls-lR.gz
delete_excl=
use_files=true
do_deletes=true
max_delete_files=10%
max_delete_dirs=10%
use_files=true
timeout=400
To use this package for mirroring, ftp to login.eunet.no. Login: tow The password will be given you upon request.
# Name=The Online World resources handbook (de Presno) Numb=1 Host=login.eunet.no Port=70 Type=1 Path=1/1 URL: gopher://home.eunet.no/11/1 Abstract=The Online World resources handbook deals with the practical \ side of using the global online information resource as seen \ from a global perspective. It explores selected applications \ across network and service boundaries showing how such needs \ can be met. The examples range from databases to entertainment \ and the bizarre to special services for professionals and \ organizations. Author: Odd de Presno. #Whatever you do, please send me a short informative note telling about it.