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.

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Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> writes:

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).

Did you try awk@sdf.org?

Those xyzzy.fresshell.org sites typically are run by the user named
xyzzy.

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

Maybe asking in irc.libera.chat #awk would yield an answer even faster.

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"We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of
solid facts. I demand that I may or may not be Vroomfondel!"

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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?

Ed.

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If all else fails:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230127153455/http://awk.freeshell.org/

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Do you GNUS too? -- Stop worrying about spam and start to score.

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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.

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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.

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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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