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- Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:38:36 GMT
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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.
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- 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.
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