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From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
Subject: Re: Don't download large files from outside Europe
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 19:05:41 GMT
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Hello everyone everywhere,

>>One caveat though:
>>    "Please restrict downloads to
>>    our non-working hours (i.e outside of 08:00-18:00 MET, Mo-Fr)
>>    Please don't download large files from outside of Europe."

This is the general text for ftp.gmd.de, not just for the IF archive.
It's not as bad as it sound; I asked our administrator (who wrote the text)
how large a "large file" is: more than about 500 kB. So you may freely 
download any file from the archive, since they are all under that limit.

>I haven't gotten any thing from the IF archives yet, but always considered
>it "THE Interactive Fiction Archive site". 

That's what it was meant to be (because it's the only dedicated one, as far 
as I know).

>If those of us from the US are
>not supposed to be rude an download large files (since we are from outside 
>Europe) then is there a "best" mirror site on this side of the atlantic pond?

No mirror site, but you're not rude; see above. I concede that the text isn't
very precise, but it probably isn't meant to be. I'll update my README file 
and try to explain it there. 

>Also, would it be possible to post a index to the the stuff currently in the
>I-F archives in Germany?

OK, here's the easy one (just the file names) as of 5 minutes ago:

total 10
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      1225 Dec 11 00:28 README
drwxrwxr-x 11 blasius       512 Jan  4 22:00 games
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Nov 30 19:21 info
drwxrwxr-x  4 blasius       512 Jan 18 18:39 infocom
drwxrwxr-x  9 blasius       512 Dec 11 00:59 programming
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan 14 15:46 rec.arts.int-fiction
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Nov 11 19:30 rec.games.int-fiction
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius      1536 Jan 18 15:54 solutions
games:
total 9
drwxrwxr-x  5 blasius       512 Nov 11 19:51 adventions
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan  4 22:09 advsys
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Nov 30 12:53 amiga
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec  6 20:56 atari
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan  4 22:00 emacs
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan 13 22:24 mac
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius      1024 Jan 13 18:13 pc
drwxrwxr-x  4 blasius       512 Jan 14 20:49 source
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan  4 22:00 unix
games/adventions:
total 3
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Nov 11 19:51 atari
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan 11 03:45 mac
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan  8 01:06 pc
games/adventions/atari:
total 0
games/adventions/mac:
total 985
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb           255 Jan 11 03:45 Index
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        470581 Jan 11 03:41 unnk1v30.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        508063 Jan 11 03:42 unnk2v30.sit.hqx
games/adventions/pc:
total 633
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb           235 Jan  8 01:06 Index
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        298794 Jan  9 22:53 unnk1v30.zip
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        320380 Jan  9 22:53 unnk2v30.zip
games/advsys:
total 83
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       357 Jan  4 22:49 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     57750 Jan  4 22:08 elves.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     24941 Dec  2 19:42 key.dat
games/amiga:
total 193
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    183774 Nov 30 12:48 Dungeon.lzh
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius        51 Nov 30 12:53 Dungeon.readme
games/atari:
total 738
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb           526 Dec  6 20:56 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         66304 Dec  6 20:50 adventr.arc
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb        218865 Dec  6 20:50 dungeon.zoo
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb        229341 Dec  6 20:51 unnk2v20.arc
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb        205733 Dec  6 20:51 unnkul12.arc
games/emacs:
total 0
games/mac:
total 2610
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      1315 Jan 13 22:28 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    138050 Jan 13 14:57 adventure-11.hqx
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    150046 Jan 13 22:24 crystalcave2.2.sit.hqx
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    251840 Jan 13 14:57 deepspacedrifter1.0.sit.hqx
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    272740 Jan 13 22:24 dudley.sit.hqx
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    504071 Jan 13 14:57 saveprinceton1.02.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        470581 Jan 11 03:41 unnk1v30.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        508063 Jan 11 03:42 unnk2v30.sit.hqx
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    272674 Jan 13 14:57 zork-27m.hqx
games/pc:
total 3132
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      2611 Jan 13 18:23 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     57088 Nov 12 20:05 adv.arc
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    142110 Nov 12 16:38 adv350.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     31391 Dec 21 22:16 atomia.zoo
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb        201580 Jan  9 20:14 c-ralf.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    143344 Nov 12 16:14 deepspac.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    233816 Nov 12 16:39 dunjin43.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb         87124 Jan  9 20:13 elsinore.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     77729 Jan  4 23:35 enchcast.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    141625 Nov 16 20:25 humbug.zoo
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     87060 Nov 16 20:26 jacajim.zoo
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    116648 Nov 12 16:11 pcadvent.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    156599 Nov 12 16:12 pcdungeo.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    106667 Nov 12 16:12 pcworld.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb        124177 Jan  8 07:05 race10.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    267729 Nov 12 16:43 skyland.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     50752 Nov 12 20:08 tess.arc
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    243669 Dec 14 19:22 tzero.zip
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        298794 Jan  9 22:53 unnk1v30.zip
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        320380 Jan  9 22:53 unnk2v30.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    130300 Nov 12 18:31 winadv21.zip
games/source:
total 859
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    171392 Dec 21 21:20 Dungeon_source.sit
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       705 Jan 14 21:05 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    159297 Dec 21 21:19 advent.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    117789 Dec 16 14:51 advsrc.zip
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec 16 23:06 agt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    261373 Dec 21 20:48 dungsrc.lzh
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan 14 21:02 tads
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    110814 Nov 12 16:03 worldsrc.zip
games/source/agt:
total 69
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     70400 Dec 16 22:58 cave-s.arc
games/source/tads:
total 350
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       471 Jan 18 16:57 Index
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        308090 Jan 15 06:10 ccr.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  2 blasius      2900 Jan 14 20:57 ccr.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb         34235 Jan  8 07:09 hightech.zip
games/unix:
total 0
info:
total 1
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       259 Nov 26 17:56 README
infocom:
total 114
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       252 Jan 14 21:20 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     68035 Jan  7 15:43 articles.zip
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec 17 18:59 decoders
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     28431 Jan  6 19:52 fact-sheet.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     15913 Jan 14 20:23 gameinfo.txt
drwxrwxr-x  6 blasius       512 Dec 11 00:43 interpreters
infocom/decoders:
total 62
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       499 Dec 17 19:06 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      9577 Dec 21 16:27 legend1.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     28079 Dec 16 22:56 toolkit.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      9707 Dec 17 18:58 zorkword.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     12540 Dec 16 19:53 zt16.lzh
infocom/interpreters:
total 4
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec 22 16:07 itf
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec  1 19:35 pinfocom
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec 16 23:30 zip
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec 11 00:57 zmachine
infocom/interpreters/itf:
total 262
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       299 Dec 22 16:10 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      4242 Nov 30 21:26 README
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    137727 Dec 22 15:44 itf-pl2-src.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    102808 Dec 22 16:03 itfp2src.zip
infocom/interpreters/pinfocom:
total 935
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       530 Dec  1 19:32 00-index.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    235409 Nov 30 21:49 pinfocom-3.0.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    196126 Dec  1 19:34 pinfocom-3.0.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    103105 Nov 30 21:49 pinfocom-docs-3.0.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     78307 Dec  1 19:35 pinfocom-docs-3.0.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    295254 Nov 30 21:59 pinfocom_3.0.lha
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       418 Nov 30 21:57 pinfocom_3.0.readme
infocom/interpreters/zip:
total 145
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       334 Dec 16 23:30 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     65593 Dec 16 23:30 zip11.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     80892 Dec  1 18:07 zip_1.0.lha
infocom/interpreters/zmachine:
total 26
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       155 Dec 11 00:57 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     24640 Dec 11 00:53 zmachine.zip
programming:
total 152
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       183 Nov 26 17:49 README
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Nov 11 19:49 adl
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan  4 22:39 advsys
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Dec 16 23:04 agt
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan 13 12:29 alan
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Nov 23 20:20 general-discussion
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    135170 Nov 12 20:07 mudv050.exe
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan  5 00:06 oasys
drwxrwxr-x  2 blasius       512 Jan 18 16:23 tads
programming/adl:
total 0
programming/advsys:
total 141
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       606 Jan  4 22:50 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     59351 Dec  1 16:32 advsys.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     49381 Dec  1 19:58 advsys.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      1514 Jan  4 22:50 dosnotes.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      2597 Dec  2 23:57 error-msgs.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     16059 Dec  1 16:32 standard.adi.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     11680 Dec  1 19:58 standard.zip
programming/agt:
total 225
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       252 Dec 16 23:06 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     89216 Dec 16 22:58 agt135.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    129024 Dec 16 22:58 agtdoc.zip
programming/alan:
total 19
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       152 Jan 13 12:38 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       628 Jan 13 14:01 howtoget.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     17344 Jan 13 12:27 standard.alan
programming/general-discussion:
total 64
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     65126 Nov 23 20:20 scoring
programming/oasys:
total 229
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius       356 Jan  5 00:06 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     18512 Nov 23 22:25 c++.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     91115 Nov 23 20:17 oasys.zoo
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    114035 Jan  5 00:06 oasys101.zip
programming/tads:
total 1131
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      1355 Jan 18 16:23 Index
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    157520 Nov 12 20:12 atari.tads.lzh
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb           162 Dec  6 20:33 atari.tads2.0.readme
-rw-r--r--  2 dmb        308090 Jan 15 06:10 ccr.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  2 blasius      2900 Jan 14 20:57 ccr.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     10640 Jan 14 20:24 gamelist.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb         80384 Dec 23 22:12 mac.tads2doc.sit
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb        266687 Jan 11 03:46 mac.tads2exe.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb         73970 Dec 23 22:11 pc.tads2doc.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb        179726 Dec 23 22:10 pc.tads2exe.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb          9216 Dec 23 22:12 textout.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb         17408 Dec 23 22:12 veriverb.zip
rec.arts.int-fiction:
total 198
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     20432 Jan  6 21:32 FAQ
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     15716 Jan 14 15:45 arc.921120.19629.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    136219 Jan 14 15:45 arc.921211.781.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     17637 Nov 23 22:16 authoring-systems.FAQ
rec.games.int-fiction:
total 0
solutions:
total 602
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      3311 Dec 15 18:21 Enchanter.step
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      4103 Dec 15 18:21 Lurking_Horror.step
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      4766 Dec 15 18:21 Planetfall.step
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      4042 Dec 15 18:21 Sorcerer.step
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      4309 Dec 15 18:21 Starcross.step
-rw-r--r--  1 dmb         10538 Dec 31 21:40 adventure.step
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          2893 Dec  6 23:03 amfv.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          3551 Dec  6 23:03 ballyhoo.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          8666 Dec  6 23:03 beyondzork.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          2532 Dec  6 23:03 border.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          6933 Dec  6 23:03 bureaucracy.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         14137 Dec  6 23:03 cutthroats.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          6094 Dec  6 23:03 deadline.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      6670 Jan 18 15:54 enchantedcastle.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          3047 Dec  6 23:03 enchanter.stepsolution
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         11568 Dec  6 23:03 enchanter.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      6446 Dec 17 22:11 hhgttg.sol
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     17991 Nov 23 23:16 hints.beyondzork
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     17152 Nov 23 23:16 hints.infocom.many
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         24359 Dec  6 23:03 hitchhiker.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          1340 Dec  6 23:03 hollywood.gag
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          4590 Dec  6 23:03 hollywoodhiijnx.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          9979 Dec  6 23:03 infidel.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius    132878 Dec 17 22:24 infocom
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          2570 Dec  6 23:03 journey.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          4911 Dec  6 23:03 lgop.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          3759 Dec  6 23:03 lurkinghorror.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          1794 Dec  6 23:03 moonmist.blue.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          1677 Dec  6 23:03 moonmist.green.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          1363 Dec  6 23:03 moonmist.red.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          1484 Dec  6 23:03 moonmist.yellow.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         10225 Dec  6 23:03 planetfall.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          3295 Dec  6 23:03 plunderedhearts.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         10391 Dec  6 23:03 seastalker.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          5501 Dec  6 23:04 sherlock.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     24498 Nov 23 23:18 sol.hitchhiker
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      7596 Nov 23 23:19 sol.hollywdhijinks
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      5926 Nov 23 23:20 sol.lgop
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      9102 Nov 23 23:20 sol.lurking
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     11109 Nov 25 15:15 sol.unnkulian1
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius      6661 Nov 23 23:21 sol.unnkulian2
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          2674 Dec  6 23:04 sorcerer.stepsolution
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         13963 Dec  6 23:04 sorcerer.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         10613 Dec  6 23:04 spellbreaker.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          9913 Dec  6 23:04 starcross.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          5311 Dec  6 23:04 stationfall.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          3609 Dec  6 23:04 suspect.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          7482 Dec  6 23:04 suspended.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          5571 Dec  6 23:04 trinity.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     30677 Dec  2 20:03 winadsol.zip
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          2124 Dec  6 23:04 wishbringer.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb          5080 Dec  6 23:04 witness.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         13716 Dec  6 23:04 zorkI.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         11362 Dec  6 23:04 zorkII.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 dmb         10931 Dec  6 23:04 zorkIII.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 blasius     20103 Dec 17 22:37 zork_123.sol

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Volker Blasius
Senior Doorstop, Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung
