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<H2>Freeware Mirror Sites</H2>

<p>These sites have graciously mirrored the freeware archive:</p>
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<LI>The Case Western Reserve University UNIX Users Group in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    <UL> <!-- Contact Tod Detre ([e-mail]) -->
    <LI><a href="http://sigunix.cwru.edu/pub/sgi/freeware/">http://sigunix.cwru.edu/pub/sgi/freeware/</a>
    <LI><a href="ftp://sigunix.cwru.edu/pub/sgi/freeware/">ftp://sigunix.cwru.edu/pub/sgi/freeware/</a>
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<LI>Planet Mirror in Australia
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    <LI><a href="http://sgifreeware.planetmirror.com/">http://sgifreeware.planetmirror.com/</a>
    <LI><a href="ftp://sgifreeware.planetmirror.com/pub/sgifreeware/index.html">ftp://sgifreeware.planetmirror.com/pub/sgifreeware/index.html</a>
    </UL>

<LI>AARNet's Mirror Project, accessible in Australia/New Zealand only
    <UL> <!-- Contact Jason Andrade ([e-mail]) -->
    <LI><a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sgi/freeware/">http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sgi/freeware/</a>
    <LI><a href="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sgi/freeware/">ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sgi/freeware/</a>
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<LI>Informed Technology's FTP archives in Australia
    <UL> <!-- [e-mail] -->
    <LI><a href="http://ftp.it.net.au/sgifreeware/">http://ftp.it.net.au/sgifreeware/</a>
    <LI><a href="ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/sgifreeware/">ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/sgifreeware/</a>
    </UL>

<LI>The University of Wroclaw in Poland
    <UL> <!-- Contact Konrad Zak ([e-mail]) -->
    <LI><a href="http://www.uni.wroc.pl/sgi_freeware/">http://www.uni.wroc.pl/sgi_freeware/</a>
    <LI><a href="ftp://www.uni.wroc.pl/pub/sgi_freeware/">ftp://www.uni.wroc.pl/pub/sgi_freeware/</a>
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<LI>PLiG in the United Kingdom
    <UL> <!-- Contact [e-mail] or Rob Partington ([e-mail]) -->
    <LI><a href="http://ftp.plig.org/pub/sgi/">http://ftp.plig.org/pub/sgi/</a>
    <LI><a href="ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/sgi/">ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/sgi/</a>
    </UL>

<LI>Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Sciences in Germany
    <UL> <!-- Contact [e-mail] or Marko Jung ([e-mail]) -->
    <LI><a href="ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/irix/mirror/freeware.sgi.com/">ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/irix/mirror/freeware.sgi.com/</a>
    </UL>
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<p>We make no guarantees about how up-to-date, complete, or reliable
their services are.  We are merely putting this reference here for
your convenience.  If any of these sites become stale, please <a
href="mailto:[e-mail]">let us know</a> so that we can update
this document!

<p>If you wish to mirror the site yourself you may find <b>rsync</b>
or <b>wget</b> useful.  The former is more automatic, but if you
prefer <b>wget</b> some users suggest the following:
<blockquote>
Here is a command to mirror the tardist (and index.html) files to the
current directory. I have gotten best results when I have removed the
index.html file before attempting to mirror the directory.

<pre>
    wget --mirror ftp://freeware.sgi.com/Dist \
        -Atardist -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 -o /tmp/wget.log
</pre>

If you have a proxy you need the <code>ftp_proxy</code> shell variable
set or that variable set in <code>/usr/freeware/etc/wgetrc</code>.  To
be safe I also set the <code>FTP_PROXY</code> variable to the same
value as <code>ftp_proxy</code>.

<pre>
    ftp_proxy=http://your_proxy:ftp_port_number/

    wget --mirror -Yon ftp://freeware.sgi.com/Dist \
        -Atardist -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 -o /tmp/wget.log
</pre>

The only problem with this setup is that if there is an error on the
server you might end up with a tardist file with a size of 175 bytes
with the following content:

<pre>
    <TITLE>FTP Error</TITLE>
    <H1>FTP Error</H1>
    <h2>Could not login to FTP server</h2>
    <PRE>Sorry, freeware.sgi.com already has 27 users logged on.  Try again in
    10 minutes.</PRE>
</pre>

Not much fun!  You can detect this problem with the following script
which tests the tardist files. The erroneous tardists are listed in
<code>/tmp/aa</code>. Remember to delete <code>/tmp/aa</code> between
each run or you might get error messages later if you try to use the
one-liner to remove the files.

<pre>
    for aa in *.tardist ; do
        tar tvf $aa > /dev/null ; xx=$? ;
        if [ 0 != $xx ] ; then echo $aa >> /tmp/aa ; fi ;
    done
</pre>

You can remove the problem files with the following one-liner (run in
the same directory):
<pre>
    cat aa | xargs rm -f
</pre>

Here is a command that untars the files:
<pre>
    for aa in *.tardist ; do
        tar xof $aa ; xx=$? ;
        if [ 0 != $xx ] ; then echo $aa >> /tmp/aa ; fi ;
    done
</pre>
</blockquote>
You can customize the above as desired.
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