Top Document: comp.sys.mac.games FAQ Previous Document: 0. A word about flaming. Next Document: 2. What does .hqx mean? What about .cpt and .sit? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The 2 major sites for ftp'ing Mac software are sumex-aim.stanford.edu (usually referred to as "info-mac") and mac.archive.umich.edu. However, these two sites are so incredibly busy that they are nearly impossible to connect to (in fact, info-mac no longer accepts direct ftp connections), so you will need to use a mirror site such as mirrors.aol.com. A mirror site is a site that contains an exact copy of the contents of another site, in the hopes of diverting some traffic away from the more popular site. Mirror sites are usually updated 1 to 3 days behind the "mother" site. Other mirror sites of info-mac and umich exist at grind.isca.uiowa.edu (North America), archie.au (Australia) and nic.switch.ch (Switzerland). It's more polite and generally faster to connect to a site that's on the same continent as you are. Wherever this FAQ points to a file at info-mac or umich, the URL (Universal Resource Locator) given is for that file's location at the AOL mirrors. This is because the AOL mirrors are fast, reliable, and frequently updated. It's also because the FAQ maintainer enjoys the idea of Usenet taking advantage of AOL for a change, instead of the other way around. Bruce Grubb periodically posts a comprehensive list of Mac ftp sites to comp.sys.mac.games. It is available via ftp from info-mac in <ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/info/comm/> and from umich in <ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac/misc/documentation/>. There is an HTML version at <http://rever.nmsu.edu/~bgrubb/mac-ftp-list.html>. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.sys.mac.games FAQ Previous Document: 0. A word about flaming. Next Document: 2. What does .hqx mean? What about .cpt and .sit? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: schulman+@pitt.edu (Christina Schulman)
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