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  • Re: Anyone know how to contact http://awk.freeshell.org providers?

    From Ed Morton@mortonspam@gmail.com to comp.lang.awk on Sun May 14 16:14:17 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.awk

    On 5/4/2023 7:05 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
    On 5/3/2023 11:50 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
    On 5/3/2023 11:07 AM, jeorge wrote:
    On 5/3/23 9:27 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
    The site http://awk.freeshell.org which contains many useful awk
    FAQs has been down for months now saying:

    #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl5.24.0
    ;     package OddMuse;
    ;     $DataDir = '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/wiki';
    ;     do '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/current.pl';

    I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
    (well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).

    Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to
    try to get that site back up?

    It's just a user account on sdf.org, a "public access unix system".
    Probably the site broke after a recent system reconfigure.  The user
    ID associated is "awk" so you could contact them like any other SDF
    user; I'm reluctant to post an actual email address due to potential
    abuse.
    As it happens I have an SDF account so I will try sending an message
    to user "awk" in case they are unaware of their site's breakage.

    Regarding accessing the information on that site, it looks like
    archive.org has a recent snapshot:

       https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/ >>>
    The individual code snippets also appear to be available w/o
    formatting via Gopher even though the gophermap files have issues; to
    access do the following:

      1) run this with a Gopher client like lynx(1):

         ex. lynx gopher://sdf.org/1/users/awk/index/

      2) note the particular code snippet, i.e. "0Adler32Checksum", then
         re-write the URL like so:

         gopher://sdf.org/0/users/awk/index/Adler32Checksum

    Within lynx(1) you can then print the page(s) to plain text files or
    use the -dump option to do a redirect.


    Thanks. I just tried emailing replacing help with awk so fingers
    crossed one of us will get through but that archive will work fine for
    now.

         Ed.

    FYI someone is working on trying to restore it now, thanks.

        Ed.

    http://awk.freeshell.org is working again now. Thanks again to jeorge
    for providing the link https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/
    which pointed me in the right direction for someone to contact about it
    being down.

    Ed.
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