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Started by Paul Joseph Mitchell
Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:54
So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Paul Joseph Mitchell
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:54
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:54
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Hello all,
First, this is more of a trivia sort of "I'm interested" question.
My room mate and I the other day were having a discussion about some
of the major ftp archive sites around, such as wuarchive, simtel 20,
garbo, cica, etc., and the point came up about exacltly how much storage
space these ftp sites have on-line, available to the user. There's such
a vast quantity of programs and information on these sites, we were just
wondering exactly how big they are. I know that simtel at least has to
be around 600 megs or so, because of the periodic CD-ROM of the archives
that is released now and then.
Again, just curiosity. Thanks for any replies.
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Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Timo Salmi
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:04
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In article <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Joseph Mitchell) writes: >of the major ftp archive sites around, such as wuarchive, simtel 20, >garbo, cica, etc., and the point came up about exacltly how much storage >space these ftp sites have on-line, available to the user. There's such This is our MsDos section at Garbo given by du disk blocks. As you can see from the in relative terms low totals, we tend to specialize a bit. (The /unix directories are given also after the /pc summaries). 267619 /pc 7444 /pc/animation 2013 /pc/arcers 2783 /pc/arcutil 1154 /pc/assembler 3324 /pc/astronomy 202 /pc/autocad 1480 /pc/batchutil 8001 /pc/bbs 911 /pc/binedit 557 /pc/bootutil 3073 /pc/business 3083 /pc/c 508 /pc/cad 1371 /pc/calendar 277 /pc/cd 963 /pc/cmd4dos 644 /pc/cmdutil 1935 /pc/comm 7024 /pc/connect 239 /pc/culture 5493 /pc/database 298 /pc/decode 8663 /pc/demo 4040 /pc/dirutil 370 /pc/diskcopy 6877 /pc/diskutil 5274 /pc/djgpp 571 /pc/doc-hard 538 /pc/doc-misc 1449 /pc/doc-net 2996 /pc/doc-soft 1033 /pc/doshelp 11346 /pc/editor 1931 /pc/education 3890 /pc/educgames 412 /pc/envutil 499 /pc/exam 367 /pc/execomp 315 /pc/filecopy 1103 /pc/filefind 2688 /pc/filelist 1661 /pc/fileutil 3259 /pc/fonts 715 /pc/format 2389 /pc/gif 2979 /pc/gifutil 4357 /pc/goldies 9140 /pc/graphics 2437 /pc/ham 78 /pc/hv 912 /pc/hypertext 1 /pc/incoming 893 /pc/keyboard 3120 /pc/linguistics 1 /pc/link 2457 /pc/mail 3373 /pc/math 1842 /pc/memacs 1289 /pc/memutil 2463 /pc/menu 2667 /pc/miscutil 669 /pc/net 4326 /pc/opus 201 /pc/passtime 7685 /pc/pcmag 743 /pc/pd2 2658 /pc/plot 3853 /pc/printer 9567 /pc/programming 3243 /pc/sb 8452 /pc/science 2451 /pc/screen 5996 /pc/sound 12661 /pc/source 345 /pc/spreadsheet 1813 /pc/stat 1219 /pc/stock 1821 /pc/sysinfo 5227 /pc/sysutil 7559 /pc/termprog 2163 /pc/termutil 2404 /pc/tex 3982 /pc/ts 267 /pc/tsr 762 /pc/turboobj 8118 /pc/turbopas 735 /pc/turbovis 1529 /pc/txtutil 6724 /pc/unix 2542 /pc/util 3922 /pc/virus And this is the Unix section. As for the rest (/win31, /mac /vms), I do not maintain them personally. 59569 /unix 12433 /unix/X11 1491 /unix/X11/X-clients 204 /unix/X11/X-clients/calctool 195 /unix/X11/X-clients/chaos 215 /unix/X11/X-clients/chess 341 /unix/X11/X-clients/colorXterm 41 /unix/X11/X-clients/exedit 223 /unix/X11/X-clients/fsim 131 /unix/X11/X-clients/xspringies 49 /unix/X11/X-clients/xtartan 91 /unix/X11/X-clients/xtr 636 /unix/X11/X11R4-fixes 18 /unix/X11/filelist 40 /unix/X11/fonts 45 /unix/X11/games 7934 /unix/X11/graphics 441 /unix/X11/hypermedia 1 /unix/X11/incoming 210 /unix/X11/mail 63 /unix/X11/misc 173 /unix/X11/monitor 153 /unix/X11/network 321 /unix/X11/news 43 /unix/X11/rootwindow 112 /unix/X11/screen 721 /unix/X11/windowmanager 31 /unix/ansitape 37 /unix/ansitar 2563 /unix/arcers 385 /unix/bind 509 /unix/ckermit 595 /unix/cnews 113 /unix/comm 32 /unix/decode 73 /unix/dig 394 /unix/diskutil 34 /unix/dvi2tty 18 /unix/epr 90 /unix/fchart 28 /unix/filelist 27 /unix/fileutil 61 /unix/ftp 161 /unix/ftpd 21093 /unix/gnu 588 /unix/gnu/bash 267 /unix/gnu/binutils 250 /unix/gnu/bison 10083 /unix/gnu/emacs 1441 /unix/gnu/emacs/elisp 774 /unix/gnu/gawk 6121 /unix/gnu/gcc 1128 /unix/gnu/gdb 1144 /unix/gnu/gnuplot 521 /unix/gnu/tar 2109 /unix/goldies 819 /unix/gplot 56 /unix/graph3d 2 /unix/incoming 291 /unix/less 68 /unix/local 8 /unix/lost+found 45 /unix/lsof 4655 /unix/mail 433 /unix/mg 814 /unix/misc 103 /unix/mp 222 /unix/nntpd 51 /unix/npr 338 /unix/ntp 226 /unix/patch 139 /unix/pcal 132 /unix/pdksh 897 /unix/perl 1025 /unix/programming 15 /unix/psraster 52 /unix/qterm 273 /unix/rn 173 /unix/sc 1104 /unix/shell 1012 /unix/sun3xkernel 448 /unix/tecoc 465 /unix/tex 2221 /unix/texdoc 115 /unix/texdoc/LittProg 105 /unix/texdoc/amstex 10 /unix/thack 349 /unix/tn3270 205 /unix/top 42 /unix/tr2tex 358 /unix/ts 889 /unix/uemacs 91 /unix/unmbasic 88 /unix/util 18 /unix/vmsbackup 117 /unix/vn 81 /unix/zmodem 354 /unix/zsh2.00 .................................................................. Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1 Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Chad Hall
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:51
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:51
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While it's not the biggest, it'll give you some idea of big and small are. f.ms.uky.edu is the site. f% du -s ~ftp/pub4/msdos 85375 /u/ftp/pub4/msdos Modestly, Chad.
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: geo
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:38
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:38
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In article <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Joseph Mitchell) writes: >First, this is more of a trivia sort of "I'm interested" question. > My room mate and I the other day were having a discussion about some >of the major ftp archive sites around, such as wuarchive, simtel 20, >garbo, cica, etc., and the point came up about exacltly how much storage >space these ftp sites have on-line, available to the user. There's such >a vast quantity of programs and information on these sites, we were just >wondering exactly how big they are. I know that simtel at least has to >be around 600 megs or so, because of the periodic CD-ROM of the archives >that is released now and then. I just wonder too that how many percent of files at Simtel and Garbo are duplicated. This may save a lot of space for some sites, such as wuarchive that mirror both BIG sites. > Again, just curiosity. Thanks for any replies. me too. Joe.
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Juha Laiho
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:40
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:40
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In article <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Joseph Mitchell) writes: >wondering exactly how big they are. I know that simtel at least has to >be around 600 megs or so, because of the periodic CD-ROM of the archives >that is released now and then. Well, the simtel20 disk only has the MSDOS-stuff from simtel, and I think there's other archives as well. So there's more than that 600M. And cica.. the cica Windows3 disk has about 200M programs on it (June 1992 edition). ..Wolf
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Timo Salmi
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:53
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:53
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In article <C1E20D.8J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> geo@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca () writes: >I just wonder too that how many percent of files at Simtel and Garbo >are duplicated. This may save a lot of space for some sites, >such as wuarchive that mirror both BIG sites. We are sometimes asked questions about coordination between the two sites. The standard reply is that we cooperate, but we do not have the time for excessibe coordination. Furthermore the cost of disk space is going down. Not so with moderation. Besides we reside on different continents. All the best, Timo .................................................................. Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1 Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Michael Regoli
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:27
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:27
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In <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul
Joseph Mitchell) writes:
>First, this is more of a trivia sort of "I'm interested" question.
> My room mate and I the other day were having a discussion about some
>of the major ftp archive sites around, such as wuarchive, simtel 20,
>garbo, cica, etc., and the point came up about exacltly how much storage
>space these ftp sites have on-line, available to the user.
ftp.cica.indiana.edu [129.79.20.84] has approximately ~300Mb of disk
space now devoted to Windows programs and utilities. This ~300Mb
resides on a half-gigabyte disk. So we've got approximately ~160Mb
left before we have to do some shuffling...
In terms of total storage space here on-line to the department, the
ftp partition is on one drive of several in a disk farm that comprises
over 17 gigabytes (16,616,318Kb) of shared file space. But that's
probably more than you wanted to know. ;-)
--
michael regoli
mr@cica.indiana.edu
regoli@indiana.BITNET
..{att,rutgers}!moose!cica!mr
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Joy . Mukherjee
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:29
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:29
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In article <1993Jan25.045335.5949@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes: > >We are sometimes asked questions about coordination between the two >sites. The standard reply is that we cooperate, but we do not have What can we the users do? Its seems that Garbo is really the place to send source code, while Simtel is the place to send shareware/freeware type programs. Is this a good rule to use, or should we send them to both?
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Kauto Huopio
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:32
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:32
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Well, here are the SunOS "df" figures for nic.funet.fi's FTP disks.. Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md1a 3707691 3699169 8522 100% /ftp/disk1 /dev/sd8c 1004077 941162 62915 94% /ftp/disk2 /dev/sd16c 1374491 1228010 146481 89% /ftp/disk3 /dev/sd17c 1369531 1138857 230674 83% /ftp/disk4 /dev/sd5e 913596 778288 135308 85% /ftp/disk6 /dev/sd1c 2028352 1824880 203472 90% /ftp/disk7 /dev/sd2c 2028352 2024692 3660 100% /ftp/disk9 --Kauto -- ****************** Kauto Huopio (huopio@kannel.lut.fi) ********************** * Mail: Kauto Huopio, Punkkerikatu 1 A 10, SF-53850 Lappeenranta,Finland * *****************************************************************************
Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Cyberspace Buddha
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:09
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:09
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In article <1993Jan24.210428.28799@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Joseph Mitchell) writes:
>>of the major ftp archive sites around, such as wuarchive, simtel 20,
>>garbo, cica, etc., and the point came up about exacltly how much storage
>>space these ftp sites have on-line, available to the user. There's such
>
>This is our MsDos section at Garbo given by du disk blocks.
<nice long list nuked>
ok, but how big are your blocks? 512? 1024? 2048?
cb
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Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Author: Timo Salmi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:04
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:04
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In article <1993Jan26.220929.25369@wixer.cactus.org> cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha) writes:
>ok, but how big are your blocks? 512? 1024? 2048?
^^^^
All the best, Timo
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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